Repeaterless transmission of 4 x 10 GbE optical packet channels using a low-power EDFA in gain-saturation region

Author

Cho, Min-Young ; Hurh, Yoon-Suk ; Lee, Sang-Hoon ; Hwang, Gyo-Sun ; Namgung, Seong-Won ; Kim, Sang-Yuep ; Lee, Sang-Soo ; Lee, Jae-Seung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Kwangwoon Univ., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

15

Issue

11

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1627

Lastpage

1629

Abstract

We present a repeaterless optical packet channel transmission technique using a low-power erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) in a gain-saturation region. Reducing the average input power to the EDFA, we can increase the optical gain for packet signals. Using this technique, we transmit 4/spl times/10 gigabit ethernet optical packet channels over conventional single-mode fibers of 80, 160, and 200 km without optical repeaters.

Keywords

erbium; optical communication equipment; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre amplifiers; optical saturation; wide area networks; 10 Gbit/s; 160 km; 200 km; 80 km; average input power; conventional single-mode fibers; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; ethernet; gain-saturation region; low-power EDFA; optical gain; optical packet channels; packet signals; repeaterless optical packet channel transmission technique; repeaterless transmission; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Delay; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Ethernet networks; Optical fiber communication; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Pulse amplifiers; Repeaters; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.818649

Filename

1237610