39.5 million-way WDM broadcast network employing two stages of erbium-doped fibre amplifiers

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An all-fibre WDM broadcast network has been demonstrated, employing two stages of Er-doped fibre power amplifiers and fused-fibre splitters, that is capable of distributing 12 wavelengths, each modulated at 2.2 Gbit/s, to 39530064 customers from a single head-end.

Inspec keywords: erbium; broadband networks; frequency division multiplexing; optical links; fibre lasers

Other keywords: digital video channels; power amplifiers; fused-fibre splitters; WDM broadcast network; single head-end; erbium-doped fibre amplifiers

Subjects: Optical communication

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