An eight-wavelength 160-km transparent metro WDM ring network featuring cascaded erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers

Author

Reichmann, K.C. ; Iannone, P.P. ; Birk, M. ; Frigo, N.J. ; Barbier, D. ; Cassagnettes, C. ; Garret, T. ; Verlucco, A. ; Perrier, S. ; Philipsen, J.

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Labs. Res., Middletown, NJ, USA

Volume

13

Issue

10

fYear

2001

Firstpage

1130

Lastpage

1132

Abstract

We demonstrate an 8/spl times/2.5 Gb/s wavelength-division-multiplexing metropolitan ring network in which each network-sourced wavelength constitutes a distinct multiuser virtual ring. The ring´s four nodes feature erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers, which promise future integrability.

Keywords

erbium; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; 160 km; 2.5 Gbit/s; 20 Gbit/s; Gb/s wavelength-division-multiplexing metropolitan ring network; cascaded erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers; eight-wavelength transparent metro WDM ring network; erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers; multiuser virtual ring; network-sourced wavelength; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Neural networks; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber networks; Optical sensors; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.950758

Filename

950758