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Optical Stabilization of Waveguide Amplifiers for WDM Ring Network with Recirculating Optical Power

P. Sridevi, B. Anjanee Kumar

Abstract


We demonstrate an all-optical wavelength-division-multiplexing ring network immune to transients based on individual optically gain clamped waveguide amplifiers. The ring system is contrasted with a comparable point-to-point configuration to evaluate the impact of recycling amplifier noise. In the outcomes, we notice that the optical stabilization is sufficiently able to conquer the impact of accumulated amplifier noise over the whole transmission bandwidth, and no lasing or turbulent conduct happens. In addition, due to the independent amplifier stabilization, the network has shown to be robust even in the case of failure and restoration. We demonstrate that the acquired outcomes are adaptable with amplifier number. All results are also applicable to fiber-based amplifiers.

 

Keywords: Erbium-doped amplifiers, optical networks, transient dynamics, waveguide amplifiers

 


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