A transparent optical bus using a chain of remotely pumped erbium-doped fiber amplifiers

Author

Chen, D.N. ; Motoshima, K. ; Desurvire, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

Volume

5

Issue

3

fYear

1993

fDate

3/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

351

Lastpage

353

Abstract

A transparent optical bus using a chain of remotely pumped erbium-doped fiber amplifiers is proposed and demonstrated in a four-station implementation. An analytical model which predicts the required parameters for the remotely pumped EDFAs at each station was developed. A maximum signal power variation of 0.3 dB is measured experimentally for each station, in good agreement with the model prediction. Experimental results indicate that the bus can potentially support up to 40 WDM channels, as limited by remotely pumped amplifier saturation.<>

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; optical communication equipment; optical pumping; WDM channels; analytical model; erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; four-station implementation; maximum signal power variation; remotely pumped EDFAs; remotely pumped amplifier saturation; transparent optical bus; Absorption; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber couplers; Optical pumping; Predictive models; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.205635

Filename

205635