A C/L-Band Gain-Clamped SOA-Raman Hybrid Amplifier for CWDM Access Networks

Author

Lee, H.H. ; Iannone, P.P. ; Reichmann, K.C. ; Lee, J.S. ; Pálsdóttir, B.

Author_Institution

AT&T Lab.-Res., Middletown

Volume

20

Issue

3

fYear

2008

Firstpage

196

Lastpage

198

Abstract

We demonstrate an 83-nm flat gain-bandwidth gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier-Raman hybrid amplifier for coarse wavelength-division-multiplexing (CWDM) access networks. Four channels of 2.488-Gb/s CWDM signals were amplified and the input dynamic range for 1-dB bit-error-rate power penalty exceeds 17.3 dB.

Keywords

Raman lasers; error statistics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre subscriber loops; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; C-band; L-band; CWDM access network; bit rate 2.488 Gbit/s; bit-error-rate; coarse wavelength-division-multiplexing; frequency 1 GHz to 2 GHz; frequency 4 GHz to 8 GHz; gain-clamped SOA-Raman hybrid amplifier; passive optical access network; power penalty; semiconductor optical amplifier; Dynamic range; High speed optical techniques; L-band; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing; Coarse wavelength-division multiplexing (CWDM); Raman fiber amplifier (RFA); gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier (GCSOA); passive optical access network;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.913234

Filename

4429337