Multiwavelength erbium-doped power limiting amplifier in all-optical self-healing ring network

Author

Chen, Yung-Kuang ; Liaw, Shien-Kuei ; Guo, Wann-Yih ; Chi, Sien

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Volume

8

Issue

6

fYear

1996

fDate

6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

842

Lastpage

844

Abstract

A multiwavelength self-healing interoffice all-optical protection ring network requires optical amplifiers with a large dynamic range. We demonstrate that an erbium-doped multiwavelength optical power limiting amplifier (OLA) fulfils the dynamic range requirement. A single three-WDM-channel OLA serving the ring size of 150 km at channel rates of 2.488 Gb/s is presented.

Keywords

SONET; erbium; fibre lasers; optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; 150 km; 2.488 Gbit/s; all-optical self-healing ring network; channel rates; dynamic range requirement; large dynamic range; multiwavelength erbium-doped power limiting amplifier; multiwavelength self-healing interoffice all-optical protection ring network; optical amplifiers; ring size; single three-WDM-channel OLA; Dynamic range; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; High speed optical techniques; Intelligent networks; Optical amplifiers; Optical filters; Power amplifiers; SONET; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.502113

Filename

502113