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Add/drop applications in fiber ring networks based on a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer in a re-circulating loop
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Add/drop applications in fiber ring networks based on a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer in a re-circulating loop

Ming-Fang Huang, Jason (Jyehong) Chen, Kai-Ming Feng, Tse-Yu Lin, Chung-Yu Lai, Chia-Chien Wei, Sien Chi, Zhonghua Zhu, Yung Jui Chen, Yin-Chieh Huang, …
Optics Communications, Vol.267(1), pp.113-117
01/11/2006

Abstract

Optical fiber communication Optical fiber device Re-circulating loop ROADM
A periodic add/drop system in a fiber ring network was investigated using a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) in a re-circulating fiber loop. After seven cascaded add/drop nodes at every 150 km along the transmission, at bit error ratio (BER) equals to 10 -9 and data rate of 10 Gbps, we observed a 2.5 dB power penalty for the passing through channels with 1050 km transmission distance, and 0.3 dB sensitivity penalty variation for the periodic add/drop channels at every 150 km, respectively. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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