Fiber transmission penalties due to EDFA power transients resulting from fiber nonlinearity and ASE noise in add/drop multiplexed WDM networks

Author

Hayee, M.I. ; Willner, A.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

21-26 Feb. 1999

Firstpage

307

Abstract

We analyze fiber transmission penalties due to erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) power transients that result from fiber nonlinearity and ASE noise in a chain of 10-20 EDFAs with as many as 32 wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) channels. We find due to worst case power transients: (i) system performance is severely degraded (up to few 10s of dB) both in single-mode fiber and dispersion-shifted fiber, (ii) the SNR can be reduced up to 8 dB in a 32-channel system, and (iii) a control channel to suppress power/SNR transients may impose an additional few dBs, which increases with the bit rate.

Keywords

nonlinear optics; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical noise; superradiance; transients; wavelength division multiplexing; 32-channel system; ASE noise; EDFA power transients; WDM channels; add/drop multiplexed WDM networks; bit rate; control channel; dispersion-shifted fiber; erbium-doped fiber amplifier power transients; fiber nonlinearity; fiber transmission penalties; system performance degradation; wavelength-division multiplexing; worst case power transients; Bit rate; Degradation; Dispersion; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Integrated circuit noise; Q factor; Scanning probe microscopy; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 1999, and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication. OFC/IOOC '99. Technical Digest

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-582-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1999.768147

Filename

768147