A C / L-band gain-clamped SOA-Raman hybrid amplifier for CWDM access networks

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 196-198

  Lee, H H ^a,b   Iannone, P P ^a   Reichmann, K C ^a   Lee, J S ^c   Palsdottir, B ^d  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^c SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^d OFS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM); Gain clamped semiconductor optical amplifier (GCSOA); Passive optical access network; Raman fiber amplifier (RFA)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

COARSE WAVELENGTH-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (CWDM); GAIN-CLAMPED SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; PASSIVE OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORK; RAMAN FIBER AMPLIFIER;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 39549083055     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.913234     Document Type: Article

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