Title :
Fibre transmission of 10 Gbit/s signals following wavelength conversion using a travelling-wave semiconductor optical amplifier
Author :
Perino, J.S. ; Glance, B.
Author_Institution :
Crawford Hill Lab., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ
fDate :
2/3/1994 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The wavelength of an intensity-modulated signal at 10 Gbit/s was translated from 1546 to 1531 nm using cross gain-compression in a semiconductor optical amplifier. The shifted signal was transmitted with less than 1 dB penalty over a 121 km span of dispersion-shifted fibre with two in-line amplifiers. A dispersion penalty of nearly 2 dB is measured for transmission of 6 Gbit/s data over 20 km conventional fibre
Keywords :
optical communication equipment; optical frequency conversion; semiconductor lasers; 1 dB; 10 Gbit/s; 121 km; 1546 to 1531 nm; 2 dB; 20 km; 6 Gbit/s; cross gain-compression; dispersion penalty; dispersion-shifted fibre; fibre transmission; in-line amplifiers; intensity-modulated signal; semiconductor optical amplifier; shifted signal; travelling-wave semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength conversion;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19940188
