210-km bidirectional transmission system with a novel four-port interleaver to facilitate unidirectional amplification

Author

Huang, Ming-Fang ; Chen, Jason ; Feng, Kai-Ming ; Wei, Chia-Chien ; Lai, Chung-Yu ; Lin, Tse-Yu ; Chi, Sien

Author_Institution

Dept. of Photonics, Nat. Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan, Taiwan

Volume

18

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

172

Lastpage

174

Abstract

A novel bidirectional transmission system is proposed and experimentally demonstrated using a four-port interleaver to enable unidirectional amplification. Following bidirectional transmission through 210 km of standard single-mode fibers, sensitivity variations of less than 0.2 dB, with a bit-error rate level of 10^-9 at 10 Gb/s, were observed between bidirectional and unidirectional transmissions.

Keywords

error statistics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; 10 Gbit/s; 210 km; bidirectional transmission system; bit-error rate level; four-port interleaver; sensitivity variations; single-mode fibers; standard fibers; unidirectional amplification; unidirectional transmission; Birefringence; Bit error rate; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical sensors; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing; Bidirectional add/drop amplifier; interleaver; optical fiber communication; optical fiber device;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.861625

Filename

1561322