Optical Amplification for Metro: EDFA/EDWA Amplets Semiconductor Technologies

摘要

Small erbium-doped (amplets) and semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) will be used in current and future Metro and Enterprise networks in various configurations. Many new system architectures will be enabled as these low-cost technologies are used to compensate transmission and impairment-compensating component losses. This tutorial discusses the definition, use, and technologies associated with these new classes of optical amplifiers, which, though little, will impact next generation networks in a big way. Leo H. Spiekman is the Director of Application Engineering at Genoa Corporation in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. His responsibilities include research into new applications of the Linear Optical Amplifier, as well as customer-focused development of current and next generation amplifier solutions. Earlier, Spiekman was with Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ, focusing on device and system aspects of all-optical wavelength conversion, and with JDS Uniphase in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where he was responsible for Semiconductor Optical Amplifier research. Spiekman holds a MSc in Physics from the University of Utrecht, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology.