Optical power limiting amplifier and its applications in an SONET self-healing ring network

Author

Way, Winston Ingshih ; Wu, Tsong-Ho ; Yi-Yan, Alfredo ; Andrejco, Matthew ; Lin, Chinlon

Author_Institution

Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ, USA

Volume

10

Issue

2

fYear

1992

fDate

2/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

206

Lastpage

214

Abstract

The authors demonstrate an erbium-doped optical power limiting amplifier (OLA), study its noise characteristics, and discuss its application in the protection rings of a four-fiber, SONET self-healing interoffice ring network. System and network considerations are also presented. The feasibility of the network was tested by a system experiment using an OLA for up to 200-km conventional single-mode fiber transmission at a bit rate of 1.244 Gb/s (OC-24 line rate)

Keywords

computer networks; erbium; fibre lasers; optical communication equipment; optical links; 1.244 Gbit/s; 200 km; Er-doped fibre amplifiers; SONET; conventional single-mode fiber transmission; erbium-doped optical power limiting amplifier; fibre ring network testing; four-fiber; noise characteristics; optical testing; protection rings; self-healing interoffice ring network; subscriber loops; system experiment; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber testing; Optical noise; Power amplifiers; Power system protection; SONET; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.120576

Filename

120576