• 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