Demonstration of EDFA cognitive gain control via GMPLS for mixed modulation formats in heterogeneous optical networks

Author

Oliveira, Juliano ; Caballero, Antonio ; Magalhaes, Eduardo ; Moura, Uiara ; Borkowski, Robert ; Curiel, Giovanni ; Hirata, Akihiko ; Hecker, Liangying ; Porto, Edson ; Zibar, D. ; Maranhao, Jose ; Monroy, I.T. ; Oliveira, Juliano

Author_Institution

CPqD Found., Campinas, Brazil

fYear

2013

fDate

17-21 March 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrate cognitive gain control for EDFA operation in real-time GMPLS controlled heterogeneous optical testbed with 10G/100G/200G/400G lightpaths. Cognitive control maintains the network BER below FEC-limit for up to 6 dB of induced attenuation penalty.

Keywords

erbium; error statistics; forward error correction; gain control; multiprotocol label switching; next generation networks; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; BER; EDFA cognitive gain control; attenuation penalty; heterogeneous optical networks; heterogeneous optical testbed; mixed modulation formats; real-time GMPLS; Bit error rate; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Gain; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0457-0

Type

conf

Filename

6533110