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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
We experimentally investigate dynamic bit-error rate (BER) performance impairments induced by add-drop operations in semiconductor-optical amplifer (SOA)-based wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) metro-ring networks. Link control techniques in short-medium span networks provide effective performance improvement and significant BER transient reduction during add-drop operation, with respect to SOA linear operating condition (low input signal power). This behavior is confirmed by dynamic BER measurements and optical signal-to-noise penalty analysis.
Publisher: 
IEEE
Publication date: 
17 Jun 2008
Authors: 

Tomasz Rogowski, Stefano Faralli, Gabriele Bolognini, Fabrizio Di Pasquale, Rodolfo Di Muro, Bimal Nayar

Biblio References: 
Volume: 20 Issue: 13 Pages: 1175-1177
Origin: 
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters