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Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer with 8.0 dB Net Gain Using Dual-Pass Amplified Scheme Shien-Kuei LIAW Ming-Hung CHANG Chun-Jung WANG Yi-Tseng LIN Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E90-B No.8 pp.2016-2021 Publication Date: 2007/08/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1345 DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e90-b.8.2016 Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Fiber-Optic Transmission for Communications Keyword: optical add/drop multiplexer, reconfigurable, wavelength division multiplexing, tunable fiber Bragg grating, optical network, optical communication, Full Text: PDF(382.8KB)>>
Summary: We propose an N-channel power-compensated reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) based on using fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). Both tunable FBGs and wavelength-fixed FBGs are used in this ROADM. By using the dual-pass amplification scheme with two pieces of erbium doped fibers, an 8.0 dB optical net gain has been achieved with a gain variation less than  0.5 dB for each add/drop/pass-through channel. System performance was studied for a four-WDM-channel 10 Gb/s 100-km lightwave transmission trial network and bit error rate of 10-9 is observed for the 50 km added signal, 100 km pass-through signal and 50 km dropped signal at -18.3, -19.4 and -18.9 dBm received power, respectively. Only 1.1 dB of power penalty was observed compared to the back-to-back transmission. | |||||
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