Relaxation oscillations and spectral hole burning in laser automatic gain control of EDFAs

Author

Luo, Gang ; Zyskind, J.L. ; Sun, Yue ; SRIVASTAVA, ANURAG K. ; Sulhoff, J.W. ; Ali, M.A.

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Lucent Technol, Holmdel, NJ

fYear

1997

Firstpage

130

Lastpage

131

Abstract

Gain control to limit fast power transients in optical networks arising from optical amplifier cross saturation is a key issue related to wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) networks. Here we consider the applicability of laser automatic gain control (AGC) to control fast power transients in optical networks and report the first high resolution measurements of transients in such gain-controlled erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs)

Keywords

automatic gain control; erbium; fibre lasers; optical fibre networks; optical hole burning; optical saturation; transients; wavelength division multiplexing; EDFAs; WDM networks; fast power transients; gain-controlled erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; high resolution measurements; laser automatic gain control; optical amplifier cross saturation; relaxation oscillation; spectral hole burning; wavelength-division multiplexing; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Gain control; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber networks; Optical saturation; Power amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

1-55752-480-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1997.719754

Filename

719754