Add to BibSonomyAbstract
Erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers (EDWAs) are of interest for their potential use in integrated photonic circuits. Unlike semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs), which are typically fabricated using costly III-V materials and are limited in their capacity to amplify WDM signals (< 20 Gbit/s per channel) due to transient carrier effects [1], EDWA fabrication and design is straightforward, they can be processed directly on silicon, and their all-optical operation and long excited-state lifetime mean that amplification at high data rates is feasible [2]. Previously, transmission experiments at up to 10 Gbit/s have been reported using an EDWA [3]. In this paper we present the results of amplification of a 40-Gbit/s optical signal using an EDWA.
© 2009 IEEE
PDF ArticleMore Like This
J. D. B. Bradley, M. Costa e Silva, M. Gay, L. Bramerie, A. Driessen, K. Wörhoff, J. C. Simon, and M. Pollnau
ATuB5 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics: Applications (CLEO:A&T) 2010
Themistoklis Chrysostomidis, Ioannis Roumpos, Konstantinos Fotiadis, Jinfeng Mu, Athanasios Manolis, Chris Vagionas, Meindert Dijkstra, Sonia M. Garcia Blanco, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos, and Theoni Alexoudi
SW2C.3 CLEO: Science and Innovations (CLEO:S&I) 2021
J. D. B. Bradley, L. Agazzi, D. Geskus, F. Ay, K. Wörhoff, and M. Pollnau
CE1_4 The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Europe) 2009