Observation of prolonged power transients in a reconfigurable multiwavelength network and their suppression by gain-clamping of optical amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1659-1661

  Yoo, S J B ^b   Xin, Wei ^b   Garrett, L D ^c   Young, J C ^b   Ellinas, G ^b   Chiao, J C ^d   Rauch, Mike ^b   Baran, Jane E ^b   Meagher, Brian ^b   Leblanc, Herve ^b   Chang, Gee Kung ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^d University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

Author keywords

All optical networks; Channel power equalizers; Gain clamping; Multiwavelength reconfigurable networks; Power transients

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); EQUALIZERS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; GAIN CONTROL; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; POWER CONTROL; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TRANSIENTS;

CHANNEL POWER EQUALIZERS; GAIN-CLAMPING; RECONFIGURABLE MULTIWAVELENGTH NETWORKS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0032207542     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.726782     Document Type: Article

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