An eight-wavelength 160-km transparent metro WDM ring network featuring cascaded erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1130-1132

  Reichmann, K C ^a,b   Lannone, P P ^a,b   Birk, M ^b   Frigo, N J ^a,b   Barbier, D ^c   Cassagnettes, C ^c   Garret, T ^c   Verlucco, A ^c   Perrier, S ^c   Philipsen, J ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Teem Photonics   (France)

Author keywords

Fiber optic amplifiers; Optical communication

Indexed keywords

NETWORK NODES (NN); WAVEGUIDE AMPLIFIERS;

ERBIUM; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0035472963     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.950758     Document Type: Article

References (5)

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4. Compact gain-block consisting of an Er-doped waveguide amplifier (EDWA) and a pump/signal multiplexer, realized by ion exchange
5. Eight wavelength amplifying combiner/splittermodule based on erbium/ytterbium doped planar technology