Bismuth-Doped O-band Bidirectional Fiber Amplifier for High-Speed Passive Optical Networks
Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany
Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Huang, Yetian; Huang, Hanzi; Chen, Haoshuo; Borkowski, Robert; Vijayan, Kovendhan; Wen, Jianxiang; Fontaine, Nicolas K.; Iannone, Pat; Essiambre, Rene-Jean; Song, Yingxiong; Wang, Tingyun; Ryf, Roland
Abstract:
We experimentally demonstrate the first bismuth-doped, cross-gain-modulation-free, bidirectional single amplifier for O-band passive optical networks. It offers 20.8-dB downstream and 15.2-dB upstream power budget improvement, and 0.5-dB power budget penalty under upstream burst mode.