Experimental investigation of gain transients in praseodymium-doped fluoride fiber amplifiers

Nnake Nweke; Robert J. Runser; Scott R. McNown; Jacob B. Khurgin

doi:10.1117/1.2047567

1 September 2005 Experimental investigation of gain transients in praseodymium-doped fluoride fiber amplifiers

Nnake Nweke, Robert J. Runser, Scott R. McNown, Jacob B. Khurgin

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 44, Issue 9, 095004 (September 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2047567

Abstract

We experimentally analyze power excursions on a surviving data channel due to praseodymium-doped fluoride fiber amplifier (PDFFA) gain transients. These transients are a result of the equivalent time-varying power for adding or dropping up to 15 wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signals from a 16-channel WDM system at 1310 nm. We find that power excursions for the surviving 10-Gbit/s data channel increase with an increase in the number of channels added or dropped from the system. Bit error rate (BER) measurements on the surviving channel indicate that a power penalty of up to 3.5 dB as compared to the steady-state condition results from a 15-channel add-drop event. These results provide indication of the applicability of PDFFA amplification to dynamic reconfigurable optical networks in future DWDM systems that incorporate wavelengths in the 1310-nm region.

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Nnake Nweke, Robert J. Runser, Scott R. McNown, and Jacob B. Khurgin "Experimental investigation of gain transients in praseodymium-doped fluoride fiber amplifiers," Optical Engineering 44(9), 095004 (1 September 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2047567

Published: 1 September 2005

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