DocumentCode
405433
Title
Fokker-Planck description of the output intensity statistics of single and cascaded EDFAs
Author
Premaratne, Malin
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Syst. Eng., Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia
Volume
1
fYear
2003
fDate
15-19 Dec. 2003
Abstract
A Fokker-Planck equation describing the probability density function of the output intensity of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is derived. We show that a quasi-analytical solution can be obtained for arbitrary input statistics enabling the analysis of chain of cascaded EDFAs.
Keywords
Fokker-Planck equation; erbium; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; statistical distributions; EDFA; Fokker-Planck equation; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; probability density function; Equations; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Markov processes; Noise figure; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Probability; Statistical distributions; Statistics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2003. The 5th Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7766-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CLEOPR.2003.1274668
Filename
1274668
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