Gain stabilization in gain clamped EDFA cascades fed by WDM burst-mode packet traffic

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 308-313

  Karásek, Miroslav ^a,c   Bononi, Alberto ^b,d,e   Rusch, Leslie A ^f,g   Menif, Mourad ^h  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; PACKET NETWORKS; RING LASERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ALL-OPTICAL GAIN-CLAMPING (AOGC) METHOD; ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA); OPTICAL SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO (OSNR); PARETO DISTRIBUTION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0033872608     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.827501     Document Type: Article

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