Extraction of laser rate equations parameters for representative simulations of metropolitan-area transmission systems and networks

I Tomkos, I Roudas, R Hesse, N Antoniades… - Optics …, 2001 - Elsevier
In this paper we present procedures for the extraction of laser rate equation parameters. The
parameters are extracted using fitting of static and dynamic measurements with simple …

Demonstration of negative dispersion fibers for DWDM metropolitan area networks

I Tomkos, D Chowdhury, J Conradi… - IEEE Journal of …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a detailed experimental and theoretical study, showing that a novel nonzero
dispersion-shifted fiber with negative dispersion enhances the capabilities of metropolitan …

10-Gb/s transmission of 1.55-μm directly modulated signal over 100 km of negative dispersion fiber

I Tomkos, B Hallock, I Roudas, R Hesse… - IEEE Photonics …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The largest transmission distance (100 km) ever reported for a commercially available 10-
Gb/s 1.55-μm directly modulated signal over a single fiber link without using any dispersion …

Effects of filter concatenation for directly modulated transmission lasers at 2.5 and 10 Gb/s

JD Downie, I Tomkos, N Antoniades… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2002 - opg.optica.org
We report computer simulation results of the effects on optical signal quality of passage
through a cascade of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) filters-multiplexers and …

Performance engineering and topological design of metro WDM optical networks using computer simulation

N Antoniades, A Boskovic, I Tomkos… - IEEE Journal on …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper demonstrates the use of computer simulation for topological design and
performance engineering of transparent wavelength-division multiplexing metropolitan-area …

Study of the performance of a transparent and reconfigurable metropolitan area network

N Madamopoulos, DC Friedman, I Tomkos… - Journal of lightwave …, 2002 - opg.optica.org
The transport performance of an optically transparent regional-size ring network testbed with
circumference of 280 km, based on metro-area optimized optical layer components and …

Highly nonlinear fiber-based lumped fiber Raman amplifier for CWDM transmission systems

T Miyamoto, M Tanaka, J Kobayashi… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2005 - opg.optica.org
The highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF)-based lumped fiber Raman amplifiers (LRAs) for four-and
eight-channel coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) transmission systems have …

Water-peak-suppressed non-zero dispersion shifted fiber for full spectrum coarse WDM transmission in metro networks

M Tanaka, T Okuno, H Omori, T Kato… - Optical Fiber …, 2002 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, the wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) transmission technology has
exhibited a dramatically rapid increase in the transmission capacity up to multi-Tbit/s for the …

Transport performance of WDM metropolitan area transparent optical networks

I Tomkos - Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2002 - opg.optica.org
Given the rapid growth of bandwidth demands, carriers must provide a flexible, data-
optimized network infrastructure. Transparent WDM metro networks address the dynamic …

Transmission of 1550nm 10Gb/s directly modulated signal over 100km of negative dispersion fiber without any dispersion compensation

I Tomkos, B Hallock, I Roudas, R Hesse… - Optical Fiber …, 2001 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the largest transmission distance (100km) ever reported for a 10Gb/s 1.55
µm directly modulated signal over a single fiber link without using any dispersion …