All-optical gain-controlled bidirectional add-drop amplifier using fiber Bragg gratings

Author

Kim, C.H. ; Yoon, H. ; Lee, S.B. ; Lee, C.H. ; Chung, Y.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

12

Issue

7

fYear

2000

fDate

7/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

894

Lastpage

896

Abstract

We demonstrate an all-optical gain-controlled bidirectional add-drop amplifier (BADA) module by using two fiber Bragg gratings (FBG´s). The proposed amplifier module could suppress the power fluctuation of the surviving channels within 0.2 dB even when thirteen out of fourteen channels were added or dropped. In addition, there was no degradation in the receiver sensitivity when this module was used for the bidirectional transmission of wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) signals.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; fluctuations; modules; optical fibre amplifiers; sensitivity; telecommunication channels; telecommunication network reliability; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM signals; all-optical gain-controlled bidirectional add-drop amplifier; all-optical gain-controlled bidirectional add-drop amplifier module; amplifier module; bidirectional transmission; fiber Bragg gratings; power fluctuation; receiver sensitivity; surviving channels; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bragg gratings; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber gratings; Gain control; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical noise; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.853541

Filename

853541