Twin-core fiber amplifier in ultra-high-bit-rate optical transmission system

Author

Chen, Haijuan ; LI, Hong ; Yang, Xianglin

Author_Institution

Inst. of Opt. Fiber Commun., Nanjing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., China

fYear

1998

fDate

22-24 Oct 1998

Abstract

The twin-core erbium-doped fiber amplifier has been studied by analysing the theoretical model and simulating the characteristics of the amplifier. It is found that the twin-core erbium-doped fiber amplifier can provide higher gains for small signals while lower gains for strong signals at the same time, which equalizes the output signal level in a wavelength-division-multiplexed or a optical frequency-division-multiplexed system. Furthermore, the twin-core erbium-doped fiber amplifier chains also stabilize the signal level and self-heal extra channel loss. It seems that the twin-core fiber amplifiers earn excellent properties when used in multi-channel ultra-high-bit-rate optical transmission systems

Keywords

frequency division multiplexing; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre theory; optical noise; wavelength division multiplexing; FDM; WDM; coupled propagation equations; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; gain; multi-channel transmission systems; noise; optical frequency-division-multiplexed system; output signal level equalization; propagation constant; self-heal extra channel loss; signal level stability; simulation; theoretical model; twin-core fiber amplifier; ultra-high-bit-rate optical transmission system; wavelength-division-multiplexing; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical coupling; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Technology Proceedings, 1998. ICCT '98. 1998 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

7-80090-827-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCT.1998.743385

Filename

743385