Investigation of Multiwavelength Optical Power Limiting Amplifier and its Applications in High-Speed Sonet Wavelength-Division Multiplexing Self-Healing Ring Network
1997 ◽
Vol 08
(04)
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pp. 767-777
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A multiwavelength optical power limiting amplifier (OLA) for high-speed SONET self-healing ring (SHR) networks is reported. Four possible OLA configurations are investigated. We find that the configuration consisting of a high-gain common erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) followed by a grating-multiplexed multiple-power-EDFA module is the best scheme for multiwavelength power-limiting operation. A constant channel output of > 11 dBm, small inter-channel power variation of ≤ 0.5 dB, and fairly low noise figure are obtained within a large dynamic range of 45 dB. Network application in a SHR network is also demonstrated and the ring size of 150 km served by a single three-WDM-channel OLA at channel rates of 2.488 Gb/s is obtained.
1992 ◽
Vol 10
(2)
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pp. 206-214
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2018 ◽
Vol 27
(07)
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pp. 1850104
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2021 ◽
Vol 5
(12)
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2004 ◽
Vol 16
(7)
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pp. 1733-1735
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2019 ◽
Vol 32
(2)
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pp. 231-238
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