{"title":"Characteristics of Single-Carrier Fiber-Optic Transmission Systems using Optical Amplifiers","authors":"Shu Yamamoto, H. Taga, Y. Yoshida, H. Wakabayashi","doi":"10.1364/oaa.1991.tha4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/oaa.1991.tha4","url":null,"abstract":"The capability of a very long-distance transmission using erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) has been demonstrated by using a circulating loop.[1],[2] In a single-carrier long-distance fiber transmission system, the signal wavelength will usually be tuned to the zero dispersion wavelength of the fiber to avoid the pulse waveform distortion due to chromatic dispersion. It has also been reported that when the signal wavelength is located exactly at the zero dispersion wavelength, the mixing of the signal with the spontaneous emission from the optical amplifiers will produce four-wave mixing sidebands.[3] However, in the practical systems, the fiber chromatic dispersion varies along the long transmission path and may alleviate the effect of the four-wave mixing. [3]","PeriodicalId":308628,"journal":{"name":"Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications","volume":"104 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113972871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Grobkopf, L. Kuler, R. Ludwig, W. Pieper, R. Schnabel
{"title":"Optical Amplifiers Operating in a Random Access Fiber Loop Optical Memory","authors":"G. Grobkopf, L. Kuler, R. Ludwig, W. Pieper, R. Schnabel","doi":"10.1364/oaa.1991.fe6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/oaa.1991.fe6","url":null,"abstract":"In a fiber loop optical memory the applications of semiconductor laser amplifiers as switching elements and of Erbium doped fiber amplifiers as gain controlling elements are investigated.","PeriodicalId":308628,"journal":{"name":"Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128428078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optical Amplifiers Used as Functional Components","authors":"L. Thylén, M. Gustavsson, L. Gillner","doi":"10.1364/oaa.1991.fc1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/oaa.1991.fc1","url":null,"abstract":"The optical amplifier is having a large impact on current research on optical networks, where the Er doped fiber amplifier (EDF) is the prime candidate for creating a transparent optical, analog network. The EDF will most likely be used for preamplification, power boosting, linear repeating because of its advantages of polarization insensitivity, extremely low ”facet” reflectivity, good noise and saturation output power properties. However, the EDF amplifier is limited in versatility: In the semiconductor laser amplifier (SCLA), light amplification is effected by the coupling between the photon field and inverted electron population system, implying that the quasifermi level separation provides an electronic means of monitoring the optical field. Further, since the spontaneous recombination time is of the order of ns, the optical field can be detected (simultaneously with amplification), frequency converted and gated up to bandwidths of ≈ 1 GHz. In the EDF, there is no analog to the electrooptic interface (although the monitoring might be possible to perform optically) and the spontaneous recombination time is on the order of ms. Hence, the SCLA offer unique possibilities, and all of the above functions can be implemented by one single generic structure which is integrable, in contrast to the EDF. But it should also be noted that the ns time scale introduces severe crosstalk problems in multichannel systems.","PeriodicalId":308628,"journal":{"name":"Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications","volume":"387 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134437505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamics of DFB Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers","authors":"Z. Wang, T. Durhuus, B. Mikkelsen, K. Stubkjaer","doi":"10.1364/oaa.1991.fc3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/oaa.1991.fc3","url":null,"abstract":"DFB laser amplifiers are very attractive for optical filtering because they can serve both as channel and noise filters and at the same time provide amplification. They may be used as filters in switching network or as receiver preamplifiers in multichannel direct detection systems [1]. Amplifiers incorporating DFB structures have also been suggested for wavelength converters [2]. For such applications it is important to understand the dynamic behaviour of DFB amplifiers when they are used in high speed systems. Especially, it is interesting to know the influence of the very narrow gain spectrum on short optical pulses.","PeriodicalId":308628,"journal":{"name":"Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125105570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Zyskind, J. W. Sulfoff, J. Stone, D. DiGiovanni, L. Stulz
{"title":"Diode-Pumped, Electrically Tunable Erbium-Doped Fiber Ring Laser with Fiber Fabry-Perot Etalon","authors":"J. Zyskind, J. W. Sulfoff, J. Stone, D. DiGiovanni, L. Stulz","doi":"10.1364/oaa.1991.thb3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/oaa.1991.thb3","url":null,"abstract":"An all fiber, diode-pumped, electrically tunable ring laser is reported. Gain is provided by an erbium-doped fiber and tuning by a Fiber Fabry-Perot etalon. The threshold at 1.566 µm is 2.9 mW, the slope efficiency is 0.15 and the output power is 4.2 mW with 32 mW of pump power. The output wavelength can be tuned from 1.525 to 1.586 µm with a variation in power of less than 3.5 dB.","PeriodicalId":308628,"journal":{"name":"Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117083350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-linear excited state absorption in Er3+-doped fibre with high-power 980nm pumping","authors":"M. Sceats, P. Krug, G. Atkins, S. Guy, S. Poole","doi":"10.1364/oaa.1991.wd2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/oaa.1991.wd2","url":null,"abstract":"We report the measurement of non-linear excited state absorption (ESA) in Er3+-doped fibres pumped at 980nm. The implications for high-power high-gain amplifiers are discussed.","PeriodicalId":308628,"journal":{"name":"Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115333522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Noise Performance of Bus-Configured Optical Networks with Distributed Fiber Amplification","authors":"E. Goldstein","doi":"10.1364/oaa.1991.fb5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/oaa.1991.fb5","url":null,"abstract":"Optical bus networks with passive taps have attracted little attention because optical- power limits severely constrain their size. It has recently been realized, however, that such constraints may be overcome using Er3+-doped fiber amplifiers. A numerical analysis [1],[2] has shown that buses with periodic amplification should be capable of supporting large numbers of nodes, even in the presence of saturating signals. Moreover, there is experimental evidence [3] that bus networks with uniformly distributed amplification generate low levels of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). We here present a simple analysis yielding closed-form expressions showing that the amplified bus can indeed support thousands of nodes, that it can span thousands of kilometers (fiber dispersion and nonlinearity permitting), and that this excellent noise performance results from the slow growth of ASE in low-gain amplifying structures. To support large numbers of nodes, however, the bus’s gain must be well matched to its loss.","PeriodicalId":308628,"journal":{"name":"Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131485412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Mikkelsen, C. Joergensen, J. A. Berk, C. F. Pedersen, C. Larsen
{"title":"High Receiver Sensitivity at 2.5 Gb/s obtained with a Highly Efficient Low Noise Diode Pumped Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier","authors":"B. Mikkelsen, C. Joergensen, J. A. Berk, C. F. Pedersen, C. Larsen","doi":"10.1364/oaa.1991.fa4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/oaa.1991.fa4","url":null,"abstract":"Laser diode pumped Erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA) with low noise figures and high saturation powers are attractive because the ratio between the saturation power and the noise figure can be considered as a figure of merit for several applications [1], These include multichannel receivers where high sensitivity and high saturation power increases the number of channels to be received and in-line applications where the dynamic range is proportional to the above mentioned figure of merit.","PeriodicalId":308628,"journal":{"name":"Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123077118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Heidemann, B. Junginger, H. Krimmel, J. Otterback, D. Schlump
{"title":"Simultaneous Distribution of Analogue AM-TV and Multigigabit HDTV with Optical Amplifier","authors":"R. Heidemann, B. Junginger, H. Krimmel, J. Otterback, D. Schlump","doi":"10.1364/oaa.1991.fb2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/oaa.1991.fb2","url":null,"abstract":"Analogue FDM transmission of AM-VSB TV-channels over optical fibres is used today to upgrade existing copper-based CATV networks. With the aid of optical amplifiers (EDFA) cost competitive FTTC systems will be realized /1,2/. The strategy for the distribution of HDTV-channels is not so clear today, but in any case, digital transmission will yield the highest quality /3/. In this paper we demonstrate the feasibility of flexible TV/HDTV-distribu- tion using simultaneous analogue AM and digital PCM transmission over optical amplifiers without any mutual quality degradation.","PeriodicalId":308628,"journal":{"name":"Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127084586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comparison of Direct and Coherent Detection Systems with Optical Amplifiers","authors":"S. Granlund, Y. Park","doi":"10.1364/oaa.1991.fa3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/oaa.1991.fa3","url":null,"abstract":"The use of fiber amplifiers in future lightwave systems now appears certain. Many experiments have been published demonstrating both the long-distance and multi-channel capability of fiber amplifier-based systems. Most experiments have used conventional direct detection systems [1,2]; but some experiments, including a record transmission distance experiment, have used coherent detection systems [3,4]; and models of both systems have been developed. This paper will compare the two systems under the same conditions using both experiments and models. We will emphasize a practical comparison by using a direct detection regenerator from AT&T’s commercial, 1.7 Gb/s system and a shelf-mounted, coherent detection regenerator from a recent AT&T field trial [5]. We will also emphasize a direct comparison by using transmitters of the same wavelength and identical optical paths including erbium-doped fiber amplifiers.","PeriodicalId":308628,"journal":{"name":"Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133813439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}