2.5 Gb/s/spl times/16 channel bidirectional transmission over 560-km of single-mode fiber using bidirectional EDFA based on spectrally interleaved synchronized etalon filters

Author

Kim, C.H. ; Chung, Y.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

21-26 Feb. 1999

Firstpage

310

Abstract

We implemented a bidirectional erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) using two spectrally interleaved synchronized etalon filters. This amplifier was used to demonstrate 2.5 Gbit/s/spl times/16-channel bidirectional wavelength-division multiplexed transmission over re-circulating loop.

Keywords

optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre filters; synchronisation; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 Gbit/s; 560 km; bidirectional transmission; erbium doped fiber amplifier; recirculating loop; single mode fiber; spectral interleaving; synchronized etalon filter; wavelength division multiplexing; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Concatenated codes; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber filters; Optical receivers; Passband; Power amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 1999, and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication. OFC/IOOC '99. Technical Digest

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-582-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1999.766423

Filename

766423