Title :
Power Compensated Bi-Directional Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer Using Built-In Optical Amplifier
Author :
Shien-Kuei Liaw ; Wan-Lin Cheng ; Yao-Sheng Hsieh ; Chu-Lin Chang ; Hung-Fu Ting
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
A power-compensated, bidirectional reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer is proposed. The system performance is built on a bidirectional 4 x 2.5 Gb/s 50 km transmission with only 0.2 dB of power penalty compared to unidirectional transmission.
Keywords :
multiplexing equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; bidirectional reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer; built-in optical amplifier; power compensation; power penalty; unidirectional transmission; Add-drop multiplexers; Bidirectional control; Fiber gratings; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical amplifiers; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Power amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528192
