The wavelength dependent transient effects of surviving channels in L-band EDFA

Author

Lee, Jyung Chan ; Chung, Hee Sang ; Oh, Wang-Yuhl ; Chu, Moo-lung

Author_Institution

Opt. Comm. Dept., ETRI, Taejon, South Korea

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

646

Lastpage

647

Abstract

The transient characteristics of surviving channel in L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifiers with 2 staged gain medium are measured when switched off and on the powers of 11, 21, 26, and 30 channels out of 31 WDM channels. It is found that the power excursions and the transient effects of a surviving channel in a same channel loading conditions grow up as the surviving channel shift to the longer wavelength and the required pump control speed should be determined at the shortest wavelength of L-band.

Keywords

erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical pumping; telecommunication channels; telecommunication network reliability; transients; wavelength division multiplexing; 2 staged gain medium; L-band EDFA; L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; WDM channels; channel loading conditions; power excursions; required pump control speed; shortest L-band wavelength; surviving channel; surviving channel shift; surviving channels; switched off powers; switched on powers; transient characteristics; wavelength dependent transient effects; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; L-band; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036621

Filename

1036621