Fast dynamics and power swings in doped-fiber amplifiers fed by highly variable multimedia traffic

Author

Bononi, A. ; Tancevski, L. ; Rusch, L.A.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ingegniera dell´Inf., Parma Univ., Italy

fYear

1998

fDate

22-27 Feb. 1998

Firstpage

213

Lastpage

214

Abstract

Summary form only given. Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) transient gain dynamics in wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) transmission systems for circuit-switching applications have recently been shown to be rather slow, in the range of tens to hundreds of /spl mu/s. We show here that such dynamics can be much faster, and give rise to large power swings, in a packet switching environment with highly variable packet interarrival times, such as with self-similar traffic.

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; multimedia communication; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; packet switching; wavelength division multiplexing; Er/sup 3+/-doped fiber amplifiers; WDM; highly variable multimedia traffic; packet interarrival times; packet switching environment; power swings; self-similar traffic; transient gain dynamics; Asynchronous transfer mode; Doped fiber amplifiers; Electronic mail; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fading; Multimedia systems; Power generation; Q factor; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 1998. OFC '98., Technical Digest

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-521-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1998.657343

Filename

657343