• DocumentCode
    3124250
  • Title

    Praseodymium-doped fibre amplifiers for WDM applications

  • Author

    Muro, R. Di ; Pasquale, F. Di ; Bayvel, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, UK
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    35467
  • Abstract
    The propagation of equally and unequally spaced WDM optical signals through a cascade of praseodymium-doped fibre amplifiers and conventional single mode fibres with zero chromatic dispersion at 1300 nm is numerically analysed. We show that a proper choice of the amplifier characteristics, span length and channel allocation, combined with the use of gain equalising and grating filters, allows to maximize the transmission distance with a substantial reduction of gain peaking and four-wave mixing crosstalk
  • Keywords
    praseodymium; 1300 nm; WDM applications; amplifier characteristics; channel allocation; equally spaced WDM optical signals; four-wave mixing crosstalk reduction; gain equalising filters; gain peaking reduction; grating filters; single mode fibres; span length; transmission distance; unequally spaced WDM optical signals; zero chromatic dispersion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    WDM Technology and Applications (Digest No. 1997/036), IEE Colloquium on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1049/ic:19970231
  • Filename
    600769