@inproceedings{d79c3faf29e54bfdb77e7c123d85581d,
title = "Experimental assessment of 1.3 μm telecommunication systems incorporating a Praseodymium Doped Fibre Amplifier (PDFA)",
abstract = "We have investigated the system performance of an experimental Praseodymium Doped Fibre Amplifier (PDFA) in an optical transmission system operating at 1.3 μm. Experimental evaluation of the PDFA, based on Bit Error Rate (BER) measurements, is presented for the PDFA in copropagating and bidirectional configurations as a function of both wavelength and optical input power. The performance is analysed for both NRZ and RZ modulation format at a bitrate of 10 Gbit/s. The polarisation dependency of the PDFA is less than 0.2 dB. The results of an experimental analysis of the PDFA in an optical recirculating loop are shown for a NRZ modulated pseudo random data stream at 622 Mbit/s. A total span of approximately 2000 km is covered. Furthermore, the results of transmission experiments using the optical circulating loop at 10 Gbit/s are presented.",
keywords = "O-band transmission, Optical recirculating loop, Praseodymium doped fibre amplifier",
author = "R.C. Schimmel and R.J.W. Jonker and {Bennekom, van}, P.K. and G.D. Khoe and {Waardt, de}, H.",
year = "2002",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1117/12.474332",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE",
pages = "940--947",
booktitle = "5th international conference on application of photonic technology, ICAPT2002",
address = "United States",
note = "ICAPT, Quebec, Canada ; Conference date: 02-06-2002 Through 06-06-2002",
}