• DocumentCode
    970621
  • Title

    Performance degradation due to polarisation dependent gain and loss in lightwave systems with optical amplifiers

  • Author

    Lichtmann, E.

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    29
  • Issue
    22
  • fYear
    1993
  • Firstpage
    1971
  • Lastpage
    1972
  • Abstract
    Analytic expressions for the degradation of the mean system performance due to polarisation dependent loss (PDL) and polarisation dependent gain (PDG) are derived. For PDL values lower than 0.5 dB only a negligible change in the mean system performance is expected. PDG, on the other hand, is shown to cause a significant degradation of the system performance.
  • Keywords
    erbium; fibre lasers; light polarisation; optical links; optical losses; EDFA; Er doped fibre amplifiers; lightwave systems; mean system performance; optical amplifiers; optical links; optical losses; performance degradation; polarisation dependent gain; polarisation dependent loss; system performance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19931312
  • Filename
    244616
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=970621