City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics

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18. Yasuo Kimura, Kazunori Suzuki, and Masataka Nakazawa, ‘‘Efficient Er3�
doped optical fiber amplifier pumped by a 1.48 µm high-power laser diode,’’ Paper
TuG6, Technical Digest Optical Fiber Communication Conference 6–9 February, 1989,
Houston; also appears as M. Nakazawa, Y. Kimura, and K. Suzuki, ‘‘Efficient Er3�
doped optical amplifier pumped by a 1.48 µm InGaAsP laser diode,’’ Applied Physics
Letters 54, pp. 295–297 (1989).
19. Y. Kimura, K. Suzuki, and M. Nakazawa, ‘‘46.5 dB gain in Er3� doped
fiber amplifier pumped by 1.48 µm GaInAsP laser diodes,’’ Electronics Letters 25,
pp. 1656–1657 (Nov. 23, 1989).
20. R. S. Vodhanel et al., ‘‘Highly efficient 978-nm diode-pumped erbiumdoped
fibre amplifier with 24-dB gain,’’ Electronics Letters 25, pp. 1386–1388
(Sept. 28, 1989).
21. E. Desurvire, C. R Giles, and J. R. Simpson, ‘‘Saturation-induced crosstalk
in high-speed erbium-doped fiber amplifiers at λ�1.53 µm,’’ paper TuG7 in Technical
Digest: Optical Fiber Communication Conference 1989; Emmanuel Desurvire, C.
Randy Giles, and Jay R. Simpson, ‘‘Gain saturation effects in high-speed multichannel
erbium-doped fiber amplifiers at λ�1.53 µm,’’ Journal of Lightwave Technology
7, pp. 2095–2104 (Dec. 1989).
22. R. E. Wagner et al., ‘‘16-channel coherent broadcast network at 155
Mb/s,’’ postdeadline Paper PD12, Optical Fiber Communication Conference 1989.
23. H. Taga et al., ‘‘459 km, 2.4 Gbit/s 4 wavelength multiplexing optical
fiber transmission experiment using 6 Er-doped fiber amplifiers,’’ postdeadline paper
9 Optical Fiber Communication Conference 1990.
24. See pp. 232–233 for background.
25. V. A. Bhagavatula, M. S. Spotz, W. F. Love, and Donald B. Keck, ‘‘Segmented
core single-mode fibers with low loss and low dispersion,’’ Electronics Letters
19, no. 9, pp. 317–318 (Apr. 25, 1983), and B. J. Ainslie et al, ‘‘Monomode
fiber with ultra low loss and minimum dispersion at 1.55 microns,’’ Electronics
Letters 18, pp. 842–844 (1982).
26. Neal S. Bergano et al., ‘‘A 9000 km 5 Gbit/s and 21,000 km 2.5 Gbit/s
feasibility demonstration of transoceanic EDFA systems using a circulating loop,’’
postdeadline paper PD13, Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Feb. 18–22,
1991, San Diego (Optical Society of America).
27. N.A. Olsson et al., ‘‘Two-channel soliton pulse propagation over 9000 km
with 10 –9 bit error rate,’’ postdeadline paper PD1, Optical Fiber Communication
Conference, Feb. 18–22, 1991, San Diego (Optical Society of America).
28. Linn F. Mollenauer et al., ‘‘Demonstration of error-free soliton transmission
over more than 15,000 km at 5 Gbit/s single-channel and over 11,000
km at 10 Gbit/s in a two-channel WDM,’’ postdeadline paper PD10, Optical
Fiber Communication Conference, Feb 2–7, 1992, San Jose (Optical Society of
America).
29. L. F. Mollenauer et al., ‘‘Demonstration, using sliding-frequency guiding
filters, of error-free soliton transmission over more than 20,000 km at 10 Gbit/s,
single-channel, and over more than 13,000 km at 20 Gbit/s, in a two-channel
WDM,’’ postdeadline paper PD-8, Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Feb 21–
26, 1993, San Jose, California (Optical Society of America).
30. J. M. Dugan et al., ‘‘All optical fiber-based 1550 nm dispersion compensation
in a 10 Gbit/s 150-km transmission experiment over 1310 nm optimized
fiber,’’ postdeadline paper PD-14, Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Feb 2–
7, 1992, San Jose, California (Optical Society of America).