Optical amplification for metro: EDFA/EDWA amplets & semioconductor technologies

Author

Spiekman, L. ; Zimmerman, D.

Author_Institution

Genoa Corp., Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2003

fDate

23-28 March 2003

Abstract

Summary form only given. Small erbium-doped (amplets) and semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) will be used in current and future Metro and Enterprise networks in various configurations. Many new system architectures will be enabled as these low-cost technologies are used to compensate transmission and impairment-compensating component losses. This tutorial discusses the definition, use, and technologies associated with these new classes of optical amplifiers, which, though little, will impact next generation networks in a big way.

Keywords

erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre losses; optical fibre networks; optical waveguide components; semiconductor optical amplifiers; EDFA; enterprise networks; erbium doped waveguide amplifiers; impairment-compensating component losses; metro networks; optical amplification; semiconductor optical amplifiers; transmission compensation; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse compression; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003

Print_ISBN

1-55752-746-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2003.1248327

Filename

1248327