• DocumentCode
    1551345
  • Title

    Control of transient effects in distributed and lumped Raman amplifiers

  • Author

    Chen, C.-J. ; Ye, J. ; Wong, W.S. ; Lu, Y.-W. ; Ho, M.C. ; Cao, Y. ; Gassner, M.J. ; Pease, J.S. ; Tsai, H.-S. ; Lee, H.K. ; Cabot, S. ; Sun, Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Onetta Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
  • Volume
    37
  • Issue
    21
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    10/11/2001 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1304
  • Lastpage
    1305
  • Abstract
    A robust control scheme for suppressing transients in both lumped and distributed Raman amplifiers is demonstrated. The control method uses only output power monitoring and holds gain fluctuations on surviving channels to <±0.06 dB in an experiment
  • Keywords
    Raman lasers; fluctuations; monitoring; optical control; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; robust control; telecommunication channels; transients; wavelength division multiplexing; control method; distributed Raman fibre amplifiers; gain fluctuations; lumped Raman amplifiers; optical fibre communication; output power monitoring; robust control scheme; surviving channels; transient effects; transients suppression;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20010880
  • Filename
    968448