Gain-Stabilized Erbium-Doped Waveguide Amplifier for Burst Transmission

Author

Taccheo, S. ; Della Valle, Giuseppe ; Festa, A. ; Ennser, K.

Author_Institution

Ist. di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano

Volume

19

Issue

2

fYear

2007

Firstpage

97

Lastpage

99

Abstract

We demonstrate an optical gain-clamped waveguide amplifier robust against wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) burst transmission transients even with synchronous arrival of all packets. A maximum power excursion of about 0.3 dB is reported for the worst case under repeated burst arrivals. We show that a very small difference in burst periodicity generates completely different transient dynamics that may also self-impact the modulated channel. The impact of cavity design on amplification performance is reported. Nonlinear behavior is observed near system resonances. We observe burst transmission is a critical application, far more demanding than any use in reconfigurable WDM networks where only abrupt channel add-drop or link failure may occur

Keywords

erbium; optical burst switching; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical waveguides; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; burst transmission; channel modulation; erbium-doped waveguide amplifier; gain stabilization; wavelength-division-multiplexing; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical waveguides; Resonance; Robustness; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing; Erbium-doped amplifiers; optical burst switching; optical networks; optical packet switching; transient dynamics; waveguide amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.888972

Filename

4049849