Title :
System performance of optical fibre preamplifier
Author :
Pettitt, M.J. ; Baker, R.A. ; Hadjifotiou, A.
Author_Institution :
STC Technol. Ltd., Harlow, UK
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;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19890190
