Reference Level Free Multichannel Gain Equalization and Transient Gain Suppression of EDFA with Differential ASE Power Monitoring

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 316-318

  Yoon, Hosung ^a   Bae, Sungho ^a   Ahn, Seong Joon ^b   Park, Namkyoo ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Electric Power Research Institute (KEPRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Erbium doped fiber amplifiers; Gain control; Power transients; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FEEDBACK CONTROL; GAIN CONTROL; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0033100939     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.748220     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. C. R. Giles, E. Desurvire, and J. R. Simpson, "Transient gain and cross talk in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers," Opt. Lett., vol. 14, pp. 880-882, 1989.
2. J. L. Zyskind, Y. Sun, A. K. Srivastava, J. W. Sulhoff, A. J. Lucero, C. Wolf, and R. W. Tkach, "Fast power transients in optically amplified multiwavelength optical networks," in OFC'96, Tech. Dig., San Jose, CA, postdeadline paper PD31.
3. G. Luo, J. L. Zyskind, Y. Sun, A. K. Srivastava, J. W. Sulhoff, C. Wolf, and M. A. Ali, "Performance degradation of all-optical gain-clamped EDFA's due to relaxation-oscillations and spectral-hole burning in amplified WDM networks," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 9, pp. 1346-1348, 1997.
4. A. K. Srivastava, J. L. Zyskind, Y. Sun, J. Ellson, G. Newsome, R. W. Tkach, A. R. Chraplyvy, J. W. Sulhoff, T. A. Strasser, C. Wolf, and J. R. Pedrazzani, "Fast-Link control protection of surviving channels in multiwavelength optical networks," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 9, pp. 1667-1669, 1997.
5. K. Motoshima, L. M. Leba, D. N. Chen, M. M. Downs, T. Li, and E. Desurvire, "Dynamic compensation of transient gain saturation in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers by pump feedback control," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 5, pp. 1423-1426, 1993.
6. D. Bayart, B. Clesea, L. Hamon, and J. L. Beylat, "1.55 μm fluoride-based EDFA with gain-flatness control for multiwavelength applications," Electron. Lett., vol. 30, pp. 1407-1409, 1994.
7. J. Burgmeier, A. Cords, R. Marz, C. Schaffer, and B. Stummer, "A black box model of EDFA's operating in WDM systems," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 16, pp. 1271-1275, 1998.
8. N. Park, P. F. Wysocki, R. Pedrazzani, S. G. Grubb, D. J. DiGiovanni, and K. L. Walker, "High power Er-Yb-doped fiber amplifier with multichannel gain flatness within 0.2 dB over 14 nm," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 8, pp. 1148-1150, 1996.
9. D. M. Baney and J. Stimple, "WDM EDFA gain characterization with a reduced set of saturating channels," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 8, pp. 1615-1617, 1996.
10. Y. Sun, J. L. Zyskind, and A. K. Srivastava, "Average inversion level, modeling, and physics of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers," IEEE J. Select. Topics Quantum Electron., vol. 3, pp. 991-1007, Aug. 1997.
11. A. Bononi and L. A. Rusch, "Doped-fiber amplifier dynamics: A system perspective," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 16, pp. 945-956, 1998.