• DocumentCode
    2472603
  • Title

    Spectral gain compression of optical amplifier cascades for WDM transmission

  • Author

    Tsuritani, Takehiro ; Kawazawa, Toshio ; Goto, Koji

  • Author_Institution
    KDD Submarine Cable Syst. Dept., Tokyo, Japan
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    3-4 Dec 1998
  • Firstpage
    249
  • Abstract
    The spectral gain compression has been experimentally confirmed by using 253 cascaded optical amplifiers for WDM transmission. The gain difference of 0.25 dB per amplifier over 5.6 nm is equivalently reduced to 0.06 dB per amplifier
  • Keywords
    erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM transmission; cascaded optical amplifiers; gain difference; optical amplifier cascades; spectral gain compression; Bandwidth; Doped fiber amplifiers; Equalizers; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical transmitters; Power amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Orlando, FL
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4947-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.1998.739553
  • Filename
    739553