• DocumentCode
    2327478
  • Title

    S-band erbium-doped fiber amplifiers for WDM transmission between 1488 and 1508 nm

  • Author

    Arbore, M. ; Zhou, Y. ; Thiele, H. ; Bromage, J. ; Nelson, L.

  • Author_Institution
    Lightwave Electron. Corp., Mountain View, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    23-28 March 2003
  • Firstpage
    374
  • Abstract
    We evaluated S-band Er:Al/Ge/SiO2 fiber amplifiers with a ∼1525-nm fundamental-mode cutoff to suppress C-band ASE. In all-EDFA transmission tests, they produced no penalties aside from expected OSNR impairment, demonstrating suitability of S-band EDFAs for WDM transmission.
  • Keywords
    aluminium compounds; erbium; germanium; optical fibre amplifiers; silicon compounds; superradiance; wavelength division multiplexing; 1488 to 1508 nm; 1525 nm; Al-Ge-SiO2:Er; C-band ASE supression; OSNR impairment; S-band Er:Al/Ge/SiO2 fiber amplifiers; WDM transmission; fundamental-mode cutoff; Costs; Doped fiber amplifiers; Gain; Optical amplifiers; Optical feedback; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical filters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-746-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2003.1248275
  • Filename
    1248275
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2327478