Comparison of wavelength-division-multiplexed distributed fiber Raman amplifier networks for sensors

A novel distributed fiber Raman amplified star topology used for optical sensor wavelength-division multiplexing is proposed. The performance of this star configuration is compared to an optically amplified bus topology. The two different network topologies are compared and demonstrated experimental...

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Autores: Díaz Lucas, Silvia, López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:España
Institución:Universidad Pública de Navarra
Repositorio:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra
OAI Identifier:oai:academica-e.unavarra.es:2454/31092
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2454/31092
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Distributed fiber Raman amplified star topology
Optical sensor wavelength-division multiplexing
Network topologies
Bus topologies
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Sumario:A novel distributed fiber Raman amplified star topology used for optical sensor wavelength-division multiplexing is proposed. The performance of this star configuration is compared to an optically amplified bus topology. The two different network topologies are compared and demonstrated experimentally and theoretically as means of gathering information from four wavelength-division-multiplexed photonic sensors. We report how the star configuration yields better signal-to-noise ratios than the bus topology. Furthermore, this improvement is made without increasing the complexity of the regular star topologies.