Static and dynamic switching performance of a metro WDM ring using linear optical amplifiers

J.J.J. Crijns, L.H. Spiekman, G.N. Hoven, van den, E. Tangdiongga, H. Waardt, de

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Abstract

The authors demonstrate the performance of a dynamic and reconfigurable metro-size wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) ring employing eight cascaded linear optical amplifiers. The ring has eight uncorrelated WDM channels, modulated at 10 Gb.s each. Measured Q-factor of all channels is between 17.6 and 18.7 dB, corresponding to a bit-error of less than 2 x 10 (-14). In an add/drop experiment, dynamic switching of channels does not affect transmission quality of the through channels.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1481-1483
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume14
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2002

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