Title :
Bidirectional Erbium-doped Waveguide Amplifiers and Applications to Optical Networks
Author :
Taccheo, Stefano ; Valle, G.D. ; Ennser, Karin
Author_Institution :
Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Abstract :
We review recent results on bidirectional erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers. We show that advanced EDWA exhibits very interesting features such as insensitivity to power fluctuation and bi-directional operation. Enhanced network design and transparent bidirectional WDM ring networks are presented.
Keywords :
erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network topology; wavelength division multiplexing; bidirectional WDM ring network; bidirectional erbium-doped waveguide amplifier; optical fiber network; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber networks; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing; bidirectional amplifier; erbium-doped optical amplifier; gain-stabilisation; optical networks; waveguide amplifier;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON '07. 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-1249-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-1249-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296064
