Title :
Spectral gain compression of optical amplifier cascades for WDM transmission
Author :
Tsuritani, Takehiro ; Kawazawa, Toshio ; Goto, Koji
Author_Institution :
KDD Submarine Cable Syst. Dept., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
The spectral gain compression has been experimentally confirmed by using 253 cascaded optical amplifiers for WDM transmission. The gain difference of 0.25 dB per amplifier over 5.6 nm is equivalently reduced to 0.06 dB per amplifier
Keywords :
erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM transmission; cascaded optical amplifiers; gain difference; optical amplifier cascades; spectral gain compression; Bandwidth; Doped fiber amplifiers; Equalizers; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical transmitters; Power amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4947-4
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1998.739553
