Title :
All-optical limiter using gain flattened fibre parametric amplifier
Author :
Su, Y. ; Wang, L. ; Agarwal, A. ; Kumar, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA
fDate :
6/22/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An all-optical limiting amplifier that is capable of reducing amplitude fluctuations in 20 Gbit/s data packets is presented. The limiting amplifier is based on a gain flattened two-stage fibre parametric amplifier having a record bandwidth of 15 nm
Keywords :
optical crosstalk; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical limiters; wavelength division multiplexing; 20 Gbit/s; DWDM; all-optical limiter; amplitude fluctuations; bandwidth; data packets; gain flattened fibre parametric amplifier; optical crosstalk;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20000798
