A nonlinear amplifying loop mirror operating with wavelength division multiplexed data

Author

Arend, M.F. ; Leng, L. ; Sears, S. ; Bergman, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

479

Abstract

We extend the functionality of the nonlinear amplifying loop mirror (NALM) to a multi-channel RZ WDM system by demonstrating the NALM as a single module for amplification and background noise suppression for four WDM data channels simultaneously. The NALM itself consists of an Er-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) (70 mW saturated power) placed at one end of a 500 m long length of single mode fiber (SMF) and joined in a loop by a 3dB fiber coupler

Keywords

mirrors; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre dispersion; wavelength division multiplexing; 500 m; 70 mW; EDFA; Er-doped fiber amplifier; amplification; background noise suppression; fiber coupler; four WDM data channels; multi-channel RZ WDM system; nonlinear amplifying loop mirror; saturated power; single mode fiber; single module; wavelength division multiplexed data; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Mirrors; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical receivers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5634-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1999.811807

Filename

811807