All-Optical AGC of EDFA Based on SOA

Author

Ben-Ezra, Y. ; Haridim, M. ; Lembrikov, B.I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., Holon Acad. Inst. of Technol.

Volume

42

Issue

12

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1209

Lastpage

1214

Abstract

We propose a novel all-optical method for automatic gain controlling of transients in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) using a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based negative feedback loop for adjusting the EDFA pump power. A dynamic model for the EDFA-SOA system is developed and used for numerical simulation of the transient behavior of this system. Simulation results for EDFA-SOA performance of the proposed method are presented. It is shown that using this method, it is possible to significantly reduce the transient effects, without producing power oscillations on the surviving channels

Keywords

automatic gain control; erbium; laser feedback; optical communication equipment; optical control; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; optical pumping; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication channels; EDFA pump power; EDFA-SOA system dynamic model; all-optical method; all-optical network; automatic gain control; erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; negative feedback loop; semiconductor optical amplifier; surviving channels; transient effects; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical attenuators; Optical control; Optical feedback; Optical fiber networks; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing; All-optical networks; automatic gain control (ACG); cross-gain modulation (XGM); erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA); semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JQE.2006.884581

Filename

4012271