DocumentCode
859934
Title
System performance of optical fibre preamplifier
Author
Pettitt, M.J. ; Baker, R.A. ; Hadjifotiou, A.
Author_Institution
STC Technol. Ltd., Harlow, UK
Volume
25
Issue
4
fYear
1989
Firstpage
273
Lastpage
275
Abstract
An optical fibre amplifier has been used as an optical preamplifier for a PIN detector-based receiver. A maximum amplifier gain of 22 dB has been measured and, at this gain with no additional optical filtering, an improvement of 10.5 dB in receiver sensitivity has been achieved.
Keywords
optical communication equipment; optical fibres; preamplifiers; receivers; 22 dB; PIN detector-based receiver; maximum amplifier gain; optical communication equipment; optical fibre preamplifier; p-i-n type; receiver sensitivity;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19890190
Filename
19707
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