Title :
Burst-mode optical fiber amplifier for PON application
Author :
Suzuki, Ken-lchi ; Fukada, Youichi ; Saito, Kazuyuki ; Nakanishi, Takashi ; Maeda, Yoichi
Author_Institution :
NTT Access Network Service Syst. Labs., NTT Corp., Chiba, Japan
Abstract :
We propose a burst-mode optical amplifier based on a gain-damped praseodymium-doped fiber amplifier (PDFA) to improve the allowable attenuation range between an OLT and ONUs; the amplifier is transparent to transmission bit-rate and/or transmission protocol.
Keywords :
optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; praseodymium; burst-mode optical fiber amplifier; gain-damped praseodymium-doped fiber amplifier; optical line terminal; optical network terminals; passive optical networks application; transmission bit-rate; transmission protocol;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
