• DocumentCode
    338551
  • Title

    Accumulation of transient power excursions in WDM networks

  • Author

    Yongqian Liu ; Krol, M.F.

  • Author_Institution
    Div. of Sci. & Technol., Corning Inc., NY, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    21-26 Feb. 1999
  • Firstpage
    298
  • Abstract
    We study transient power excursions of an all-optically gain-controlled amplifier chain. We observe that the speed of residual power excursions increase much faster with the of amplifiers than uncontrolled networks.
  • Keywords
    automatic gain control; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; optical hole burning; wavelength division multiplexing; optical amplifier chain; optical automatic gain control; optical fiber WDM network; spectral hole burning; transient power excursion; Intelligent networks; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical control; Optical fiber networks; Optical saturation; Power amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; WDM networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 1999, and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication. OFC/IOOC '99. Technical Digest
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-582-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.1999.766420
  • Filename
    766420