Performance Analyses of Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing in Ring Metropolitan Area Networks With and Without Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifier
This Paper investigates the performance of dense wa v length division multiplexing ring networks implemnted in the metropolitan areas for the purpose of deploy ing higher bit rates. The investigations were carri ed out in the Cband operating region by deploying four channels over a single standard mode fibre with channel spacing of 100GHz at 10Gbps. Transmissions of 108km and 7km with and without Erb ium Doped Fibre Amplifier (EDFA) were achieved with a 10 fixed value of Bit Error Rate (BER). The performanc e was measured through a bit rate analyser using an eye diagram.
Novel Optical Flat-Gain Hybrid Amplifier for Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed System
For the first time, a novel flat-gain optical amplifier is proposed using a hybrid configuration with an Er-Yb co-doped waveguide amplifier (EYDWA) and a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) for 100 × 10-Gb/s dense wavelength division multiplexed system at 0.2 nm interval. With an EYDWA-SOA hybrid amplifier, a flat gain of is obtained across the effective bandwidth with a gain variation of the order of 0.75 dB without using any gain clamping techniques. It is observed that when the proposed hybrid amplifier is used as a booster for hybrid distributed Raman amplifier and erbium doped fiber amplifier, the gain variation is reduced from 2.01 to ~ 1.15 dB efficiently with acceptable bit error rate.
Gain-clamping erbium-doped waveguide amplifier module using optical feedback technique
Abstract A forward optical feedback technique for gain-clamping erbium-doped waveguide amplifier has been proposed and experimentally investigated. Three different saturated tones are selected in this proposed structure over the operation range from 1530 to 1550 nm to realize the amplification behaviors. Therefore, a dynamic range of input signal power from −9 to −40 dBm at 1552 nm is obtained when different power level and lasing position of the saturated tone are applied. In addition, the gain clamping performance has also been investigated experimentally under different operation conditions such as the lasing wavelength, the cavity loss and the input signal wavelength.