An eight-wavelength 160-km transparent metro WDM ring network featuring cascaded erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers

Authors
Reichmann, KC Iannone, PP Birk, M Frigo, NJ Barbier, D Cassagnettes, C Garret, T Verlucco, A Perrier, S Philipsen, J
Citation
Kc. Reichmann et al., An eight-wavelength 160-km transparent metro WDM ring network featuring cascaded erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers, IEEE PHOTON, 13(10), 2001, pp. 1130-1132
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science
Journal title
IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS
ISSN journal
10411135 → ACNP
Volume
13
Issue
10
Year of publication
2001
Pages
1130 - 1132
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(200110)13:10<1130:AE1TMW>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
We demonstrate an 8 x 2.5 Gb/s wavelength-division-multiplexing metropolita n ring network in which each network-sourced wavelength constitutes a disti nct multiuser virtual ring. The ring's four nodes feature erbium-doped wave guide amplifiers, which promise future integrability.