Abstract
Fiber transmission penalties due to nonlinearity and amplified-spontaneous-emission (ASE) noise are presented. ASE noise results from channel drop/add erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) gain transients in 10-20 EDFAs with 32 WDM. The system model consist of 40-km spans of either standard single mode or dispersion-shifted fiber. Each span is followed by an EDFA and a long-period fiber grating for EDFA gain spectrum equalization. System performance is evaluated by calculating the Q factor of each individual channel using the averages and standard deviations of 1 s and 0 s within the central T/10 portion of each bit. Results reveal that transient penalties depend upon the data rate, number of channels, and fiber type.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 449-450 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS |
Volume | 2 |
State | Published - 1999 |
Event | Proceedings of the 1999 12th Annual Meeting IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS'99) - San Francisco, CA, USA Duration: Nov 8 1999 → Nov 11 1999 |