Title : 
Tunable Thulium-assisted parametric generation of 10 Gb/s intensity modulated signals near 2 μm
         
        
            Author : 
Cordette, Steevy ; Billat, Adrien ; Yu-Pei Tseng ; Bres, C.-S.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
STI IEL, Photonic Syst. Lab., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We report the demonstration of an all-fiber 10Gb/s modulation capable source near 2μm, tunable over more than 60nm with powers exceeding 2dBm, based on parametric conversion and appended Thulium amplification.
         
        
            Keywords : 
optical fibre communication; thulium; Thulium amplification; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; intensity modulated signals; parametric conversion; tunable thulium assisted parametric generation; Modulation; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Photodiodes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Cannes
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964005