Method and apparatus for optical system link control

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H04B 10/17 (2006.01) H04J 14/02 (2006.01)

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CA 2341674

A method for tuning and improving the performance of an optical communication system comprising a link that includes optical amplifiers and, optionally, active and/or passive optical components such as, e.g., DWDM's, WADM's, and optical cross-connects, includes preferentially shaping and, in particular, flattening, with respect to the input power spectrum, the output power spectrum from the amplifier, component or of the link. A flattened output power spectrum is obtained by modifying the gain spectrum operating on the respective input power spectrum. Feedback for such gain modifications is typically provided by optimizing the optical signal to noise ratio of each channel of the respective output power spectrum. A system link, an optical amplifier, and optical components having flattened output power spectra are also described.

La présente invention concerne un procédé permettant d'affiner et d'améliorer les caractéristiques de marche d'un système de communication optique avec liaison comprenant des amplificateurs optiques et, éventuellement, des composants optiques actifs et/ou passifs du type DWDM, WADM ou brasseur optique. Ce procédé consiste de préférence à façonner, et en particulier à uniformiser, par rapport au spectre de puissance d'entrée, les spectres de puissance de sortie à partir de l'amplificateur ou d'un composant de la liaison. Pour uniformiser un spectre de puissance de sortie, on modifie le spectre de gain à l'intérieur du de spectre de puissance d'entrée. Cette modification de gain s'obtient généralement par optimisation du rapport signal optique/bruit de chacun des canaux du spectre de puissance de sortie correspondant. L'invention porte également sur une liaison de système, un amplificateur optique et des composants optiques présentant des spectres de puissance de sortie uniformisés.

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