Abstract
The performance of a new, single-chip linear optical amplifier (LOA) is compared to a semiconductor optical amplifier and an EDFA. Bit-error-rate measurements of the LOA show no power penalty in a 10 Gb/s WDM transmission system test.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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