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LUCENT DEMOS RECORD-BREAKING 100-CHANNEL OPTICAL AMPLIFIER WITH ëPOTENTIAL TO REVOLUTIONIZE OPTICAL NETWORKING TECHNOLOGYÃ
FOR RELEASE MONDAY, JULY 21, 1997
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA ñ Continuing its leadership in optical networking, Lucent Technologies has demonstrated a record-breaking experimental ultra-wideband optical-fiber amplifier that can boost lightwave signals carried simultaneously over 100 or more channels, or wavelengths, of light.
The experiment underscores the potential of optical networks to deliver unprecedented network capacity.
The optical amplifier spans 80 nanometers of the lightwave spectrum, almost seven times the optical bandwidth of amplifiers used in todayÃs commercial wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) communications systems. WDM is a technique for transmitting a mix of voice, data and video, in the ones and zeros of digital information, over various wavelengths, or colors, of light.
The research team, from LucentÃs renowned Bell Labs and its industry-leading Optical Networking/SONET business unit, will report its results in a paper to be presented here Wednesday [July 23] at the annual Topical Meeting on Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications, sponsored by the Optical Society of America.
The bandwidth of the experimental amplifier is three times that of erbium-doped fluoride amplifiers, twice that of recently described Bell Labs experimental erbium-doped silica fiber amplifiers, and 50 percent higher than has been reported for experimental dual amplifiers.
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