Transient behavior of L-band and C-band EDFAs in an add/drop multiplexed 40-channel WDM network

Author

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

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

415

Lastpage

416

Abstract

Summary form only given. WDM networks use wavelength-selective add/drop multiplexing (ADM) to achieve significant enhancements in efficiency, flexibility, and throughput. Since L-band transmission is becoming commercially available, optical ADM operations will be required for both the L and C bands. We present an extensive study of the differences between C and L-band EDFA dynamics for a 40-channel WDM system for varying numbers of cascaded EDFAs. We investigate and display the dynamic differences in terms of transient response time.

Keywords

erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; telecommunication channels; transients; wavelength division multiplexing; 40-channel WDM network; C-band EDFAs; EDFA dynamics; L-band; L-band transmission; WDM networks; add/drop multiplexed; cascaded EDFAs; dynamic differences; optical ADM operations; transient behavior; transient response time; wavelength-selective add/drop multiplexing; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Intelligent networks; L-band; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Power measurement; Time factors; Time measurement; Transient response; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947988

Filename

947988