Erbium-doped fiber amplet and its application as a modular bandwidth management subsystem for dispersion compensation and power management

Kevin Jianluo Zhang; Darlene Hart; Koo Il Kang; Brian C. Moore

doi:10.1117/1.1371797

1 July 2001 Erbium-doped fiber amplet and its application as a modular bandwidth management subsystem for dispersion compensation and power management

Kevin Jianluo Zhang, Darlene Hart, Koo Il Kang, Brian C. Moore

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 40, Issue 7, (July 2001). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1371797

A narrowband optical amplifier ("amplet") is proposed and demonstrated that can be constructed into an amplifier-based subsystem to perform dispersion compensation and dynamic power management in a wide DWDM bandwidth. The amplet is designed to inherently provide two important networking features: narrowband accessibility and bandwidth scalability. The narrowband accessibility allows for the realization of inline dispersion compensation and dynamic gain management; and the bandwidth scalability provides an economic solution to meet capacity demand. As a demonstration, a modular bandwidth management subsystem is developed using this amplet technology to simultaneously provide dispersion compensation, dynamic power management, and amplification. The experimental results show that wide band dynamic gain control is achieved using this new bandwidth management architecture. We demonstrate system power penalties less than 1 dB using this subsystem in a long-haul system testbed with accumulated dispersion varying from -600 to -1600ps/nm.

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Kevin Jianluo Zhang, Darlene Hart, Koo Il Kang, and Brian C. Moore "Erbium-doped fiber amplet and its application as a modular bandwidth management subsystem for dispersion compensation and power management," Optical Engineering 40(7), (1 July 2001). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1371797

Published: 1 July 2001

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