Performance of Gain-Clamped EDFAs in Channel Routing and Packet Switched WDM Optical Transmissions

Author

Thomas, D.H. ; von der Weid, J.P.

Author_Institution

Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Some of the critical factors that affect the behaviour of an ail-optically stabilized EDFA were studied, but without differentiating disturbances caused by several network traffic cases. Traffic changes come from add or drop of WDM channels at any network node (WDM routing) or from random interarrival time of data in packet/burst switching transmissions. We evaluate the performance of two lasing wavelengths (above and below the C-band) in a ring-laser clamping configuration to reach minimal EDFA gain-fluctuation and high quality transmission, regardless the input signal condition in WDM routing and packet switched transmissions.

Keywords

erbium; optical burst switching; optical fibre amplifiers; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; Jk:Er; WDM channels; WDM optical transmissions; WDM routing; channel routing; erbium-doped fibre amplifiers; gain-clamped EDFA; network traffic; packet-burst switching transmissions; ring-laser clamping; Optical packet switching; Routing; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386464

Filename

4386464