Title :
Static and dynamic switching performance of a metro WDM ring using linear optical amplifiers
Author :
Crijns, J.J.J. ; Spiekman, L.H. ; van den Hoven, G.N. ; Tangdiongga, E. ; de Waardt, H.
Author_Institution :
Genoa Corp., Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
The authors demonstrate the performance of a dynamic and reconfigurable metro-size wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) ring employing eight cascaded linear optical amplifiers. The ring has eight uncorrelated WDM channels, modulated at 10 Gb/s each. The measured Q-factors of all channels are between 17.6 and 18.7 dB, corresponding to a bit-error rate of less than 2/spl times/10/sup -14/. In an add/drop experiment, dynamic switching of channels does not affect transmission quality of the through channels.
Keywords :
Q-factor; error statistics; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; Q-factor; VCSEL; add/drop experiment; bit-error rate; dynamic switching performance; eight cascaded linear optical amplifiers; eight uncorrelated WDM channels; metro WDM ring; reconfigurable metro-size wavelength-division-multiplexing ring; semiconductor-based amplifiers; static switching performance; through channels; transmission quality; Optical amplifiers; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber couplers; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2002.802425
