Automatic gain-controlled bidirectional add-drop amplifier for dynamically reconfigurable bidirectional WDM networks

Author

Kim, Hyun Deok ; Shin, Jeong-Hun ; Lee, Sang-Mook ; Lee, Chang-Hee

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

15

Issue

1

fYear

2003

Firstpage

135

Lastpage

137

Abstract

An automatic gain-controlled bidirectional add-drop amplifier (BADA) has been realized by incorporating pump-controlled bidirectional and unidirectional EDFAs. By using the BADAs, we demonstrate a dynamically reconfigurable bidirectional wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) ring network. The BADA enables dynamic add-drops of wavelength-interleaved bidirectional signals and protects surviving signals against the impairments induced by dynamic network reconfigurations.

Keywords

arrayed waveguide gratings; automatic gain control; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; Er-doped fiber amplifiers; WDM ring network; arrayed-waveguide grating router; automatic gain-controlled bidirectional add-drop amplifier; bidirectional wavelength division multiplexed networks; dynamic add-drops; dynamically reconfigurable bidirectional WDM networks; pump control technique; pump-controlled bidirectional EDFA; pump-controlled unidirectional EDFA; surviving signals; transient-controlled erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; wavelength-interleaved bidirectional signals; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.805772

Filename

1159087