Title :
Distortion-free amplification of high-speed test patterns up to 100 Gbit/s with erbium-doped fibre amplifiers
Author :
Izadpanah, H. ; Chen, D. ; Chinlon Lin ; Saifi, M.A. ; Way, W.I. ; Yi-Yan, A. ; Ginlett, J.I.
Author_Institution :
Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ, USA
Abstract :
A report is made on the first distortion-free optical amplification of high-speed signals up to 100 Gbit/s in an erbium-doped fibre amplifier. The amplifier´s high-speed temporal characteristics are measured and compared with those of a semiconductor optical amplifier. The high-speed optical test patterns (repetitive or modulated) were generated from a gain-switched DFB laser using optical spectral filtering, chirp compression and optical time-division multiplexing.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; optical communication equipment; 100 Gbit/s; EDFA; chirp compression; distortion-free optical amplification; gain-switched DFB laser; high-speed optical test patterns; high-speed signals; optical spectral filtering;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19910127
