EDFA power transients and their effects in high speed optical networks

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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 languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)449-450
Number of pages2
JournalConference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS
Volume2
StatePublished - 1999
EventProceedings of the 1999 12th Annual Meeting IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS'99) - San Francisco, CA, USA
Duration: Nov 8 1999Nov 11 1999

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