Design of optical fiber cable television distribution systems using erbium-doped fiber amplifiers

Jian-Guo Zhang; A. B. Sharma; Pichet Ritthisoonthorn

doi:10.1117/1.601960

1 April 1998 Design of optical fiber cable television distribution systems using erbium-doped fiber amplifiers

Jian-Guo Zhang, A. B. Sharma, Pichet Ritthisoonthorn

Optical Engineering, Vol. 37, Issue 4, (April 1998). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601960

Optical fiber distribution systems with intensity-modulation/ direct-detection and erbium-doped fiber amplifiers are designed for cable television (CATV) applications. Two types of system configurations are considered, i.e., the passive power splitter with optically preamplified receivers (PPS-OPR) scheme and the hybrid passive-and-active power splitter (HPAPS) scheme. The receiver sensitivity is calculated for various system parameters. We compare both schemes through the number of CATV subscribers and show that the HPAPS scheme is superior to the PPS-OPR scheme for large-scale CATV distribution applications.

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Jian-Guo Zhang, A. B. Sharma, and Pichet Ritthisoonthorn "Design of optical fiber cable television distribution systems using erbium-doped fiber amplifiers," Optical Engineering 37(4), (1 April 1998). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601960

Published: 1 April 1998

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