• DocumentCode
    1288141
  • Title

    Four-wave mixing in EDFAs

  • Author

    Liu, Y. ; Bursev, S. ; Tsuda, S. ; Hegarty, S.P. ; Mozdy, R.S. ; Hempstead, M. ; Luther, G.G. ; Smart, R.G.

  • Author_Institution
    Div. of Sci. & Technol., Corning Inc., NY, USA
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    24
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    11/25/1999 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2130
  • Lastpage
    2131
  • Abstract
    A study is presented of four-wave mixing (FWM) in L- and C-band EDFAs. From experiments, it has been observed that FWM scales with the length of Er-doped fibre. It is shown theoretically that FWM crosstalk from EDFAs considerably exceeds that from NZDSF fibre in DWDM L-band systems and leads to a penalty of up to 1 dB in terms of the Q parameter
  • Keywords
    erbium; multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical crosstalk; optical fibre amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; C-band; DWDM; EDFA; Er-doped fibre amplifier; L-band; Q parameter; crosstalk; four-wave mixing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19991454
  • Filename
    815938