Static and dynamic switching performance of a metro WDM ring using linear optical amplifiers

Author

Crijns, J.J.J. ; Spiekman, L.H. ; van den Hoven, G.N. ; Tangdiongga, E. ; de Waardt, H.

Author_Institution

Genoa Corp., Eindhoven, Netherlands

Volume

14

Issue

10

fYear

2002

Firstpage

1481

Lastpage

1483

Abstract

The authors demonstrate the performance of a dynamic and reconfigurable metro-size wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) ring employing eight cascaded linear optical amplifiers. The ring has eight uncorrelated WDM channels, modulated at 10 Gb/s each. The measured Q-factors of all channels are between 17.6 and 18.7 dB, corresponding to a bit-error rate of less than 2/spl times/10/sup -14/. In an add/drop experiment, dynamic switching of channels does not affect transmission quality of the through channels.

Keywords

Q-factor; error statistics; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; Q-factor; VCSEL; add/drop experiment; bit-error rate; dynamic switching performance; eight cascaded linear optical amplifiers; eight uncorrelated WDM channels; metro WDM ring; reconfigurable metro-size wavelength-division-multiplexing ring; semiconductor-based amplifiers; static switching performance; through channels; transmission quality; Optical amplifiers; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber couplers; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.802425

Filename

1037557