Title :
Adaptive Regeneration of Optical Packet Suffering from Gain Transient of EDFA by Using NOLM Discriminator
Author :
Awaji, Y. ; Furukawa, Hiroshi ; Wada, N.
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrated regeneration of optical packet distorted by the gain transient of EDFA. It is based on power discrimination of NOLM and adaptive to change of traffic density which affects on the degree of transient.
Keywords :
laser beams; mirrors; optical distortion; optical fibre amplifiers; optical repeaters; telecommunication traffic; EDFA; JkJk:Er; NOLM discriminator; adaptive regeneration; gain transient; optical packet distortion; power discrimination; traffic density; Adaptive optics; Bit rate; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Nonlinear distortion; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical packet switching; Pulse modulation; Repeaters; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528230
