TY - JOUR Y1 - 2021/07/05/ TI - Fibre optic parametric amplifier for high capacity burst-mode access networks N1 - © The Authors 2021. Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). SP - 21190 IS - 14 ID - discovery10130768 EP - 21198 JF - Optics Express AV - public N2 - We compare performance of a polarization insensitive fiber optic parametric amplifier (PI-FOPA), a commercial erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) and a discrete Raman amplifier (DRA) in a 50 km long-reach optical access network transmitting bursts of 10 Gbps signal with traffic density ranged from 5% to 97%. We demonstrate that for the same power budget the PI-FOPA allows for transmission of bursty traffic with density up to 97% while DRA and EDFA are limited to 30% and 15%, respectively. Alternatively, we demonstrate PI-FOPA to allow for 3 dB and 5 dB higher power budget than the DRA and EDFA, respectively, for the worst case scenario of 75% traffic density. VL - 29 UR - https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.422990 A1 - Gaur, CB A1 - Gordienko, V A1 - Ferreira, F A1 - Ribeiro, V A1 - Doran, NJ ER -