Q-factor penalty evaluation in a cascade of all-, optical nodes using a re-circulating loop

Author

Simões, Fabio D. ; Rocha, Mônica L. ; De Barros, Miriam R X ; Horiuchi, Mariza R. ; Sachs, Antonio C. ; Rossi, Sandro M. ; Rosolem, João B. ; Juriollo, Antonio A. ; Paradisi, Alberto

Author_Institution

CPqD Telecom & IT Solutions, Campinas, Brazil

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

20-23 Sept. 2003

Abstract

The impact of all-optical node concatenation effects on the performance of a WDM transmission through 350 km of standard fiber is investigated with re-circulating loop experiments. A node of the OMEGA test bed is used to simulate a chain of fourteen nodes. Each link comprises a combination between one node (mux/demux, thermal optical switch and erbium-doped fiber optical amplifier) and 25 km of standard single mode fiber. Amplifier noise accumulation has been found to be the most detrimental effect.

Keywords

Q-factor; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; optical switches; wavelength division multiplexing; 350 km; OMEGA test; Q-factor; WDM transmission; amplifier noise accumulation; erbium-doped fiber optical amplifier; optical node concatenation effect; optical nodes; single mode fiber; thermal optical switch; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber testing; Optical noise; Optical switches; Q factor; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 2003. IMOC 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7824-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2003.1271842

Filename

1271842