Title :
Specialty fibers for optical amplifiers in communications
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Hochfrequenztech., Tech. Univ. Braunschweig, Germany
Abstract :
Various solutions are explored to extend the bandwidth with flat gain of optical amplifiers and to open up new bands for efficient amplification. Many solutions require non-silica fibers, e.g. fluoride fibers or heavy metal oxide fibers of different kinds like tellurite or the newly developed antimony silicate fibers. The main properties of such fibers and their impact on system performance in the S, C and L-bands are described
Keywords :
optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; 1450 to 1600 nm; C-band; L-band; S-band; antimony silicate fibers; bandwidth; fluoride fibers; gain; heavy metal oxide fibers; nonsilica fibers; optical amplifiers; optical fibers; specialty fibers; system performance; tellurite; Bandwidth; Gain; Glass; L-band; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber testing; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon compounds; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2001. Proceedings of 2001 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cracow
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7096-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2001.934710
