In-service performance monitoring of optical amplifiers utilizing band-rejection filter

Author

Dong-Ho Lee ; Sang-Rok Lee ; Byung-Ho Yoon ; Moo-Jung Chu ; Jae-Keun Kim

Author_Institution

Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon, South Korea

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

Aug. 30 1999-Sept. 3 1999

Firstpage

718

Abstract

An amplifying process in optical amplifiers accompanies an amplified spontaneous emission (ASE), which concerns the amplifier noise. The authors propose a novel in-service performance monitoring method utilizing an optical band-rejection filter (OBRF), by which they can separate and measure the signal light and the ASE light efficiently, and determine optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) or noise figure (NF) with ease and accuracy.

Keywords

band-stop filters; laser noise; monitoring; noise measurement; optical fibre amplifiers; optical filters; optical variables measurement; superradiance; amplified spontaneous emission; amplifier noise; amplifying process; band-rejection filter; in-service performance monitoring; noise figure; optical amplifiers; optical signal-to-noise ratio; Monitoring; Noise figure; Noise measurement; Optical amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio; Spontaneous emission; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO/Pacific Rim '99. The Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul, South Korea

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5661-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.1999.817798

Filename

817798