High performance Er-Yb planar waveguide amplifiers as in-line and pre-amplifiers in 10 Gb/s fiber system experiments

Author

Delavaux, J.-M.P. ; Park, Y.K. ; Murphy, E. ; Granlund, S. ; Mizuhara, O. ; Barbier, D. ; Rattay, M. ; Clauss, G. ; Kevorkian, A. ; Nagel, J.A.

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Breinigsville, PA, USA

Volume

5

fYear

1996

fDate

19-19 Sept. 1996

Firstpage

23

Abstract

We report the evaluation of tandem optical amplifier configurations based on Er-Yb co-doped integrated optics amplifier modules, combining low noise figure (<4 dB), high gain (>25 dB), and large saturated power (+12.5 dBm). In a pre-amplifier-receiver arrangement, a sensitivity of -35.4 dBm at 10 Gb/s is achieved for transmission of up to 4 channels around the 1534 nm wavelength over 152 km of dispersion shifted fiber (DSF). Also, error free (BER<10/sup -13/) transmission at 10 Gb/s through 186 km of DSF is demonstrated with the amplifier used as a mid-span repeater.

Keywords

erbium; laser noise; modules; optical fibre dispersion; optical planar waveguides; optical repeaters; optical saturation; preamplifiers; sensitivity; solid lasers; ytterbium; 10 Gbit/s; 152 km; 1534 nm; 25 dB; Er-Yb co-doped integrated optics amplifier modules; Gb/s fiber system experiments; dispersion shifted fiber; error free transmission; high gain; high performance Er-Yb planar waveguide amplifiers; in-line amplifiers; large saturated power; low noise figure; mid-span repeater; pre-amplifier-receiver arrangement; pre-amplifiers; sensitivity; tandem optical amplifier configurations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on

Conference_Location

Oslo, Norway

Print_ISBN

82-423-0418-1

Type

conf

Filename

713773