Title :
Optical amplification for metro: EDFA/EDWA amplets & semioconductor technologies
Author :
Spiekman, L. ; Zimmerman, D.
Author_Institution :
Genoa Corp., Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Small erbium-doped (amplets) and semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) will be used in current and future Metro and Enterprise networks in various configurations. Many new system architectures will be enabled as these low-cost technologies are used to compensate transmission and impairment-compensating component losses. This tutorial discusses the definition, use, and technologies associated with these new classes of optical amplifiers, which, though little, will impact next generation networks in a big way.
Keywords :
erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre losses; optical fibre networks; optical waveguide components; semiconductor optical amplifiers; EDFA; enterprise networks; erbium doped waveguide amplifiers; impairment-compensating component losses; metro networks; optical amplification; semiconductor optical amplifiers; transmission compensation; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse compression; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1248327
