Title :
Transient control study of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers for reconfigurable DWDM networks
Author :
Yam, S.S.-H. ; Chen, C.-J. ; Kalogerakis, G. ; White, I.M. ; Akasaka, Y. ; Srivastava, K. ; Sun, Y. ; Cheng, Y.-J. ; Monnard, R. ; Wilson, G.C. ; Marchic, M.E. ; Kazovsky, L.G.
Author_Institution :
Photonics & Networking Res. Lab., Stanford Univ., CA, USA
Abstract :
Transient amplifier gain excursion of surviving channels due to dynamic wavelength add-drop should be kept below 1.5 dB to maintain data quality and receiver clock synchronization. This is experimentally demonstrated with 800 km-span of field deployed fiber network.
Keywords :
erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; optical receivers; synchronisation; wavelength division multiplexing; 800 km; data quality; erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; fiber network; receiver clock synchronization; reconfigurable DWDM networks; transient amplifier gain excursion;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
