Title :
Large power and SNR swings in cascaded EDFAs carrying highly variable traffic
Author :
Tancevski, Ljubisha ; Bononi, Alberto ; Rusch, Leslie A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Laval Univ., Que., Canada
Abstract :
We show that cascades of EDFAs carrying packetized traffic with high variability can display large output power and SNR swings due to the gain saturation effect. We have developed a simulation program capable of realistic analysis of the power and SNR transients in WDM optical networks employing cascades of EDFAs
Keywords :
erbium; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical saturation; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; SNR swings; SNR transients; WDM optical networks; cascaded EDFAs; gain saturation effect; high variability; highly variable traffic; large output power; packetized traffic; simulation program; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fluctuations; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Power generation; Signal to noise ratio; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
84-89900-14-0
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.1998.732718
