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title:
 
90-nm Wideband Optical Amplifier Including an Semiconductor Optical Amplifier and a DCF-based Raman Fiber Amplifier with Gain Clamping and Dispersion Compensation
publication:
 
JCIS-2006 Proceedings
part of series:
  Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
ISBN:
  978-90-78677-01-7
ISSN:
  1951-6851
DOI:
  doi:10.2991/jcis.2006.313 (how to use a DOI)
author(s):
 
Chia-Hsiung Chang, Hermann Lin
corresponding author:
 
Chia-Hsiung Chang
publication date:
 
October 2006
keywords:
 
Optical Amplifier, DWDM, Raman Amplifier, Semiconductor Optical Amplifier.
abstract:
 
We have experimentally demonstrated the gain-clamped wideband optical amplifier using a DCF-based Raman amplifier and an semiconductor optical amplifier for 90-nm wide bandwidth amplification with good gain flatness (of 3 dB) as well as dispersion compensation of 10Gb/s DWDM signals over 100-km SMF link. The power penalty of 0.4 dB for the gain-clamped amplifier with lasing light at 1508 nm has been achieved as compared with the non-gain-clamped amplifier case. Such gain-clamped light within the SOA suppresses the cross-gain modulation (XGM) effect of the SOA and therefore the XGM-induced power penalty dramatically reduced. This amplifier may play an important role in MAN for high speed and broadband delivery between city interconnection.
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