Four-wave mixing in optical links using quasi-distributed optical amplifiers

Author

Radic, Stojan ; Pendock, Graeme ; Srivastava, Atul ; Wysocki, Paul ; Chraplyvy, Andrew

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

19

Issue

5

fYear

2001

fDate

5/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

636

Lastpage

645

Abstract

We investigate efficiency of four-wave mixing (FWM) generation in quasi-distributed erbium-doped fiber (EDF) sections under general power evolution conditions. Measured FWM efficiencies are found to be in a good agreement with newly developed formulae applicable to waveguides with spatially and spectrally varying gain. Inoue´s work describing FWM process in multiple amplified spans is generalized. A new theory of FWM generation in optical links amplified by a set of quasi-distributed nodes is developed and used to analyze multiple span L-band link

Keywords

erbium; multiwave mixing; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; wavelength division multiplexing; FWM efficiencies; four-wave mixing; general power evolution conditions; multiple amplified spans; multiple span L-band link; optical links; quasi-distributed erbium-doped fiber amplifier sections; quasi-distributed nodes; quasi-distributed optical amplifiers; spatially varying gain; spectrally varying gain; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Gain measurement; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber theory; Optical mixing; Optical waveguide theory; Optical waveguides; Power generation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.923476

Filename

923476