Static and dynamic switching performance of a metro WDM ring using linear optical amplifiers
- 7 November 2002
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Vol. 14 (10) , 1481-1483
- https://doi.org/10.1109/lpt.2002.802425
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. The measured Q-factors of all channels are between 17.6 and 18.7 dB, corresponding to a bit-error rate of less than 2/spl times/10/sup -14/. In an add/drop experiment, dynamic switching of channels does not affect transmission quality of the through channels.Keywords
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