An optical amplifier for metro WDM networks, based on a gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier

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作者
Lee, HH [1 ]
Lee, D [1 ]
Oh, JM [1 ]
Han, J [1 ]
Chung, HS [1 ]
Kim, K [1 ]
Lee, GW [1 ]
Lee, JS [1 ]
Yoon, IK [1 ]
Hwang, ST [1 ]
机构
[1] Chungnam Natl Univ, Dept Phys, Taejon 305764, South Korea
关键词
semiconductor optical amplifier; gain-clamping; Raman fiber amplifier; dynamic add-drop; wavelength division multiplexing; metro WDM;
D O I
10.1117/12.580463
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
An optical amplifier for metro WDM networks, based on a gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier is proposed. The amplifier (RAGCSOA) consists of a low gain Raman fiber amplifier and a gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier. The RAGCSOA has over 20 dB gain and a noise figure below 3 dB. In addition, the potentially compact amplifier shows negligible transients under dynamic add-drops. Sixteen channels of 10 Gb/s signals were successfully transmitted over five NZDSF spans of 80 km using RAGCSOAs. RAGCSOAs were also used to successfully transmit sixteen channels of 10 Gb/s WDM signals over four 40 km spans of SMF with add-drops. No penalty was observed when 15 out of 16 channels were dynamically add/dropped in all the transmission systems. The RAGCSOA can be very compact when a GCSOA chip and a Raman pump LD chip are packaged in a module.
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页码:418 / 425
页数:8
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