An analysis of optical amplifier gain competition attack in a point-to-point WDM link

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4874, Issue , 2002, Pages 249-261

  Deng, Tao ^a   Subramaniam, Suresh ^a  

^a George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

AGC; Amplifier gain saturation; BER performance; Erbium doped fiber amplifier; Gain competition attack; OSNR

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; GAIN MEASUREMENT; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL (AGC);

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0036425899     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.475302     Document Type: Conference Paper

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