DocumentCode
328134
Title
Fault identification for amplified WDM optical networks
Author
Sun, Y. ; Srivastava, A.K. ; Sulhoff, J.W. ; Zyskind, J.L.
Author_Institution
Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Volume
1
fYear
1996
fDate
19-19 Sept. 1996
Firstpage
31
Abstract
We present a new method of detecting changes in the number of channels present in an Er-doped fibre amplifier (EDFA) by monitoring the power of one signal channel and the power of the amplified spontaneous emission generated by the local EDFA.
Keywords
erbium; fibre lasers; monitoring; optical fibre networks; optical fibre testing; superradiance; wavelength division multiplexing; EDFA; Er-doped fibre amplifier; amplified WDM optical fibre network fault identification; amplified spontaneous emission; channel number change detection;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on
Conference_Location
Oslo, Norway
Print_ISBN
82-423-0418-1
Type
conf
Filename
713736
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