METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION IN WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEX OPTICAL TRANSMISSION

    公开(公告)号:CA2254544A1

    公开(公告)日:1999-07-27

    申请号:CA2254544

    申请日:1998-11-26

    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of optical transmission and particularly to a method and a system for controlling optical amplification in wavelength division multiplex optical transmission. WDM systems currently under development will have eighty or more channels i. e. modulated optical signals with different wavelengths (known as Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing DWDM). These DWDM systems are demanding optical amplifiers which especially considering the cascadation of a plurality of optica l amplifiers along the transmission path of the DWDM system have only very limited tolerances in certain parameters. Among these parameters gain flatness and gain tilt are of special importance. The present invention discloses a method and a system which make use of auxiliar y optical signals having a given power level which is equal for all auxiliary sign als. Differences in the power levels of the auxiliary signals after optical amplifica tion are used for the control of the optical amplifiers of the WDM system.

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