Title :
An international field trial at 1.3 μm using an 800 km cascade of semiconductor optical amplifiers
Author :
Reld, J.J.E. ; Cucala, L. ; Settembre, M. ; Smets, R.C.J. ; Ferreira, M. ; Haunstein, H.F.
Author_Institution :
Philips Optoelectron., Eindhoven, Germany
Abstract :
In the European ACTS-upgrade project an operational link between Madrid and Lisbon has been realised at 1.3 μm using RZ transmission over a cascade of semiconductor optical amplifiers in the installed network. We also present an all-optical 3R regenerator
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optical repeaters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 1.3 mum; European ACTS-upgrade project; Lisbon; Madri; RZ transmission; all-optical 3R regenerator; installed network; international field trial; operational link; semiconductor optical amplifier cascade; Distributed amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Optical saturation; Optical solitons; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
84-89900-14-0
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.1998.732725
