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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2003. The 5th Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7766-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2003.1274668
