Title :
A theoretical investigation of dynamic automatic gain control in multi-channel EDFA cascades
Author :
Richards, D.H. ; Ali, M.A. ; Jackel, J.L.
Author_Institution :
City Coll. of New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
Using a time- and spectrally-resolved simulation, we compare two all-optical methods of stabilizing output power per channel in chains of saturated Er-doped fibre amplifiers (EDFAs) with changing numbers of channels
Keywords :
erbium; EDFAs; all-optical methods; dynamic automatic gain control; multi-channel EDFA cascades; saturated Er-doped fibre amplifiers; spectrally-resolved simulation; stabilizing output power; theoretical investigation; time-resolved simulation;
Conference_Titel :
Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communications, 11th International Conference on, and 23rd European Conference on Optical Communications (Conf. Publ. No.: 448)
Conference_Location :
Edinburgh
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-697-0
DOI :
10.1049/cp:19971486
