Design of bidirectional communication systems with optical amplifiers

Author

Farré, J. ; Bødtker, E. ; Jacobsen, G. ; Stubkjaer, K.E.

Author_Institution

TFL-Telecommun. Res. Lab., Horsholm, Denmark

Volume

5

Issue

4

fYear

1993

fDate

4/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

425

Lastpage

427

Abstract

The performances of four different configurations implementing bidirectional communication systems with erbium-doped fiber optical amplifiers in a 622-Mb/s IM/DD system are compared. The transmission span and the tolerance to variation in link attenuations (attenuation margin) are studied as a function of the amplifiers´ position in the link. Operating the amplifiers slightly into saturation (0.4 dB) turns the configurations robust with respect to changes in link attenuations (4.0-dB improvement in the tolerable increase of attenuation, for a span of 76.9 dB).<>

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; optical links; optical losses; 622 Mbit/s; IM/DD system; amplifier saturation; attenuation margin; bidirectional communication systems; erbium-doped fiber optical amplifiers; link attenuations; optical amplifiers; optical link design; robust; transmission span; Attenuation; Bidirectional control; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical design; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical saturation; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.212687

Filename

212687