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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1481-1483 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | IEEE Photonics Technology Letters |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2002 |