Title :
Upper limit and control scheme for power per channel in optically-amplified WDM systems
Author :
Clesca, B. ; Havard, V. ; Gauchard, S. ; Rodrigues, V. ; Lantoine, E. ; Cravec, D. ; Ollivier, F.X.
Author_Institution :
Centre de Villarceaux, Alcatel Telecom, La Ville du Bois, France
Abstract :
Self-phase modulation limits 2.5-Gbit/s channel power to +10 dBm through 6/spl times/90 km of standard fibre. A control scheme is demonstrated in order to keep the channel power smaller than +10 dBm whatever the number of channels.
Keywords :
distributed feedback lasers; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; optical transmitters; phase modulation; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 Gbit/s; 540 km; 90 km; Gbit/s channel power; channel power; control scheme; optically-amplified WDM systems; power per channel; self-phase modulation limits; standard fibre;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Oslo, Norway
Print_ISBN :
82-423-0418-1
