Controle automatico eletronico de ganho com supressão de transientes aplicado a EDFAs em redes opticas WDM / Eletronic automatic gain control with transient suppresion applied over WDM optical networks

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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IIn WDM optical communication systems erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA) have an essential function, enabling amplification of simultaneous channels independently of transmit rate. The majority of current WDM systems use point to point configuration operating with a fixed number of channels over the optical link. However, the new generation optical systems are composed by elements capable to provide links reconfigurations, making the number of channels in a link, a random variable, requiring that all elements in the network, particularly the EDFAs, are suited to the new requirements imposed by reconfiguration. The EDFAs introduce a hard dependency between gain and input power, inducing changes at gain provided to channels in accordance to input power, especially when saturated. In order to minimize the effects imposed by changes of power at EDFAs input, automatic gain control techniques were developed, still for point to point systems, keeping constant the gain provided to the channels according to slow variations caused by links degradations. But, with the advent of OXCs and ROADMs, the networks reconfiguration degree took a different perspective, being able to execute successive channels add and drop events in very short time periods. This high reconfiguration degree causes abrupt changes in short time periods on EDFAs input power, which prohibit the use of electronic automatic gain control techniques developed for point to point networks, due these control schemes do not have sufficient short time control that provides transient suppression for EDFAs. This work presents the development and evaluation of an experimental automatic gain control technique by electronic feedback with a high-performance processing, which allows the power transient suppression on the surviving channels during the actuation of the EDFA gain controller developed. This developed control technique is based on a design of a proportional integral controller, for controlling the EDFA gain by electronic feedback, which allows transient suppression over surviving channels during the EDFA controller gain actuation. This developed control technique is based on proportional integrate gain controller implemented on a DSC (Digital Signal Controller) with high processing performance (using fixed-point arithmetic), using too high performance digital analog converters and analog digital converters. One of the objectives of the evaluation trial was the evaluation of settling time for automatic gain controller and amplitude of power transient suppression over the surviving channels on EDFA, optimizing the technique performance for this both parameters. It was observed the amplifier performance with developed gain control technique, after introduction of the same in a new generation reconfigurable WDM optical network, where they were held successive channel add and drop simulating the reconfigurable network operation. It has been verifying the transient power suppression levels and settling time of +/- 1dB and 150 µs respectively, with a read and actuate cycle of 9 µs. This result demonstrates state of the art status of the developed automatic gain control for EDFAs, enabling the use of this technique in EDFA for new reconfigurable generation WDM networks

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comunicações oticas automatic control controle automatico fibras oticas optical amplifiers optical fiber amplificadores oticos reconfigurable optical networks

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