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Ahmad Atieh, Pablo Perez, Robin Andrew, and Fahim Sheikh
Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, November 2005
Discusses the commercial and network architecture impact of a “black link”
approach, as a key enabler for multi-vendor service solutions that combine
both legacy systems and new video services with a maximum of future proof
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Ahmad Atieh and Paul Vella
Photonics North, October 2005
SFP transceivers have been used to show that legacy optical networks in
the metro-core-edge region of the network can be upgraded cost
effectively through optical-electrical-optical (OEO) wavelength
translation. The wavelength translation (WT) technique i
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Lijie Qiao, Xiaofeng Zhu and Paul J. Vella
Photonics North, September 2005
The demand for increased data and communications services is driving many
carriers to upgrade their legacy optical systems in the metro-metro-edge
region of the communication network. When such upgrades require extending
the tra
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Lijie Qiao and Paul J. Vella
Optical Society of America, April 2005
A novel EDFA has been designed to optimize amplification of CWDM channels
in the C-and L-bands of the spectrum for multi-channel operation in
a CWDM environment. Low-cost, wide-bandwidth, flat-gain and low-noise-figure
per
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Ahmad Atieh, Pablo Perez, Robin Andrew and Fahim Sheikh
OFC/NFOEC, March 2005
Describes an innovative and cost effective optical infrastructure
solution to support multi-vendor service solutions that combine both legacy
systems and new video services with a maximum of flexibility at the lowest
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Ahmad Atieh and Paul Vella
Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations, October 2004
The dominant limiting factors affecting the performance of an amplified
CWDM data transmission system with an inline semiconductor optical amplifier
are investigated at different data rates and data formats. In this paper,
the effects of ASE beat noise and XGM on data transmission in an amplified
CWDM system is investigated. Also, the effects of SOA impairments on different
data rates and data formats such as OC-48, OC-12, Fiber channel and gigabit
Ethernet will be reported on and discussed.
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Ahmad Atieh and Paul Vella
Photonics North, August 2004
In this work, the effects of ASE beat noise and cross-gain-modulation
(XGM) on data transmission in a 10-Gbps CWDM system with an inline semiconductor
optical amplifier (SOA) are investigated. The dominant impairment factors
and
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Ahmad Atieh, Lijie Qiao, Suet Yuen, and Paul Vella
Fiber Optic Technology, July 2004
Coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) transmission systems offer
cost-effective means of delivering broadband optical services within applications
such as metropolitan and enterprise networks. The cost savings originate
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Ahmad Atieh, Paul Vella (BTI Photonic Systems Inc.) and Craig Michie, Tony Kelly, Bob Press (Kamelian Ltd.)
Lightwave, February 2004
Key physical characteristics of semiconductor optical amplifiers such
as gain, NF, Psat, PDG and gain ripple are presented. The importance of
each of these parameters within the context of telecommunication systems
is explained.
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