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Optical amplifiers

Optical amplifiers
Optical amplifiers
The development of low-loss optical silica fibres and reliable semiconductor laser sources in the early 1970s have enabled the practical realisation and massive deployment of optical-fibre communications worldwide. However, high bit-rate transmission is severely limited by the fibre residual loss and dispersion [1]. Fibre non-linearities, on the other hand, can further limit high bit rates over long distances [2]. Figure 5.1 shows a typical attenuation and dispersion spectrum of single-mode, standard-telecommunication fibres (STF) and dispersion-shifted fibres (DSF). In the second telecommunications window (centered around 1.31 µm), STFs exhibit very low dispersion and propagation losses of about 0.35 dB/km. Use of DSFs can shift the zero dispersion point in the third telecommunication window (centered around 1.55 µm), where the propagation loss is about 0.2 dB/km.
151-196
Springer Berlin
Zervas, Mikhail N.
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van den Hoven, Gerlas
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Grote, Norbert
Venghaus, Herbert
Zervas, Mikhail N.
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van den Hoven, Gerlas
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Grote, Norbert
Venghaus, Herbert

Zervas, Mikhail N. and van den Hoven, Gerlas (2001) Optical amplifiers. In, Grote, Norbert and Venghaus, Herbert (eds.) Fibre Optic Communication Devices. (Springer Series in Photonics) Springer Berlin, pp. 151-196.

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The development of low-loss optical silica fibres and reliable semiconductor laser sources in the early 1970s have enabled the practical realisation and massive deployment of optical-fibre communications worldwide. However, high bit-rate transmission is severely limited by the fibre residual loss and dispersion [1]. Fibre non-linearities, on the other hand, can further limit high bit rates over long distances [2]. Figure 5.1 shows a typical attenuation and dispersion spectrum of single-mode, standard-telecommunication fibres (STF) and dispersion-shifted fibres (DSF). In the second telecommunications window (centered around 1.31 µm), STFs exhibit very low dispersion and propagation losses of about 0.35 dB/km. Use of DSFs can shift the zero dispersion point in the third telecommunication window (centered around 1.55 µm), where the propagation loss is about 0.2 dB/km.

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Published date: 2001

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Local EPrints ID: 78934
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/78934
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ORCID for Mikhail N. Zervas: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0651-4059

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Date deposited: 11 Mar 2010
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Author: Mikhail N. Zervas ORCID iD
Author: Gerlas van den Hoven
Editor: Norbert Grote
Editor: Herbert Venghaus

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