• DocumentCode
    1399539
  • Title

    10 Gbit/s RZ transmission over 5000 km with gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifiers and saturable absorbers

  • Author

    Bakonyi, Z. ; Onishchukov, G. ; Knöll, C. ; Golles, M. ; Lederer, F.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. fur Angewandte Phys., Friedrich-Schiller-Univ., Jena, Germany
  • Volume
    36
  • Issue
    21
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    10/12/2000 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1790
  • Lastpage
    1791
  • Abstract
    By combining a gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier (GC-SOA) and a saturable absorber-semiconductor optical amplifier module. 10 Gbit/s RZ transmssion over 5000 km (200×25 km) has been demonstrated in a fibre loop setup. It is shown that a GC-SOA could compensate for the patterning introduced by a conventional SOA
  • Keywords
    modules; optical saturable absorption; optical transmitters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 10 Gbit/s; 25 km; 5000 km; Gbit/s RZ transmission; Gbit/s RZ transmssion; conventional SOA; fibre loop setup; gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifiers; optical saturable absorbers; patterning; saturable absorber-semiconductor optical amplifier module;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20001283
  • Filename
    878570