Title :
Power transfer among channels in WDM systems
Author :
Wen, Jiping ; Sun, Yu ; Yan, Li ; Carter, G.M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, we show experimentally and by simulations that the combination of polarisation dependent loss (PDL) and saturation of erbium doped fibre amplifiers (EDFA) in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) system causes the power transfer among channels, resulting in a large signal power variation for each channel.
Keywords :
erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; EDFA; PDL; WDM; erbium doped fibre amplifier; polarisation dependent loss; power transfer; signal power variation; wavelength division multiplexing; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical losses; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Page description languages; Polarization mode dispersion; Power measurement; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7888-1
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2003.1253064
