Title :
Cascaded in-line optical amplifiers in multichannel coherent optical transmission
Author :
Grosskopf, G. ; Ludwig, R. ; Weber, H.G.
Author_Institution :
Heinrich-Hertz-Inst. fur Nachrichtentech. Berlin GmbH, West Germany
Abstract :
In coherent optical two-channel DPSK-systems containing cascaded optical amplifiers various sources of channel interference are investigated. The authors show that the 30 dB-gain of the optical amplifiers can be fully converted into an increased transmission span
Keywords :
interference (signal); optical links; phase shift keying; semiconductor junction lasers; 30 dB; DPSK-systems; cascaded inline optical amplifiers; cascaded optical amplifiers; channel interference; multichannel coherent optical transmission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1988. (ECOC 88). Fourteenth European Conference on (Conf. Publ. No.292)
Conference_Location :
Brighton