Penalties in long-haul optical amplifier systems due to polarization dependent loss and gain

Author

Bruyère, F. ; Audouin, O.

Author_Institution

Alcatel Alsthom Recherche, Marcoussis, France

Volume

6

Issue

5

fYear

1994

fDate

5/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

654

Lastpage

656

Abstract

The impact of polarization dependent gain (PDG) and polarization dependent loss (PDL) in long-haul optical amplifier systems is studied by means of a power analysis accounting for PDG, PDL and polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in the saturation regime of the erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs). System penalties are characterized in terms of mean values and standard deviations. Mean penalties on the bit-error-ratio (BER) are directly related to PDG. BER fluctuations are found to be greatly enhanced when PDG and PDL are combined. The impact of PMD is dependent on the values for PDG and PDL.<>

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; light polarisation; optical dispersion; optical fibres; optical links; optical losses; BER fluctuations; EDFAs; bit-error-ratio; erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; long-haul optical amplifier systems; mean penalties; mean values; penalties; polarization dependent gain; polarization dependent loss; polarization mode dispersion; power analysis; saturation regime; standard deviations; system penalties; Bit error rate; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber losses; Optical fiber polarization; Optical saturation; Page description languages; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.285570

Filename

285570