2.5 Gb/s x 16-channel bidirectional WDM transmission system using bidirectional erbium-doped fiber amplifier based on spectrally interleaved synchronized etalon filters

Author

Kim, C.H. ; Chung, Y.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

11

Issue

6

fYear

1999

fDate

6/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

745

Lastpage

747

Abstract

The implemented a bidirectional erbium-doped fiber amplifier using two spectrally interleaved synchronized etalon filters. This amplifier was used to demonstrate 2.5 Gb/s/spl times/16 channel bidirectional wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) transmission over 160-km-long single mode fiber. No power penalty was observed in receiver sensitivity caused by relative intensity noise. In addition, we measured the performance of the concatenated amplifiers using a recirculating loop. The results show that it would be possible to use the proposed amplifier for the transmission of bidirectional WDM signals over seven amplifier spans (/spl sim/560 km) with a span loss of 20 dB.

Keywords

erbium; light interferometers; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre losses; optical receivers; sensitivity; synchronisation; wavelength division multiplexing; 16-channel bidirectional WDM transmission system; 160 km; 2.5 Gbit/s; 20 dB; 40 Gbit/s; 560 km; Gb/s/spl times/16 channel bidirectional transmission; WDM; amplifier spans; bidirectional WDM signal transmission; bidirectional erbium-doped fiber amplifier; concatenated amplifiers; power penalty; receiver sensitivity; recirculating loop; relative intensity noise; span loss; spectrally interleaved synchronized etalon filters; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Matched filters; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber filters; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.766805

Filename

766805