• DocumentCode
    316302
  • Title

    A theoretical investigation of dynamic automatic gain control in multi-channel EDFA cascades

  • Author

    Richards, D.H. ; Ali, M.A. ; Jackel, J.L.

  • Author_Institution
    City Coll. of New York, NY, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    22-25 Sep 1997
  • Firstpage
    47
  • Abstract
    Using a time- and spectrally-resolved simulation, we compare two all-optical methods of stabilizing output power per channel in chains of saturated Er-doped fibre amplifiers (EDFAs) with changing numbers of channels
  • Keywords
    erbium; EDFAs; all-optical methods; dynamic automatic gain control; multi-channel EDFA cascades; saturated Er-doped fibre amplifiers; spectrally-resolved simulation; stabilizing output power; theoretical investigation; time-resolved simulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communications, 11th International Conference on, and 23rd European Conference on Optical Communications (Conf. Publ. No.: 448)
  • Conference_Location
    Edinburgh
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-85296-697-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1049/cp:19971486
  • Filename
    626702