Title : 
Compact bi-directional EDFAs to support extended power budget class of TWDM-PON
         
        
            Author : 
Masamichi Fujiwara;Ryo Koma;Ken-Ichi Suzuki;Akihiro Otaka
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 1-1, Hikari-no-oka, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa, 239-0847, Japan
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Proposed bi-directional EDFAs reuse, in an L-band EDF, the pump light power unused in a very short length C-band EDF. Device size is effectively reduced while meeting the E2 class power budget required for TWDM-PON OLT.
         
        
            Keywords : 
"Gain","Wavelength division multiplexing","Passive optical networks","Optical amplifiers","Power generation","Bidirectional control","Power amplifiers"
         
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341661