Investigation of Power Transients in 45 Channel DWDM Ring Optical Network

Erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA) are most commonly used in optical networks for the most assorted applications. The fast power transient effect of the cascaded erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA) in 45 channels optical ring network is investigated. The power transient effect of EDFA’s are observed when channels are added and dropped. It is shown that, for low channel adding/dropping frequency closed to EDFA transient rate, the transmission performances of the surviving channels are impaired severely. And also ring laser configuration technique has been reported to mitigate the effect of power transients. Optsim simulation was utilized for simulation of the designed DWDM OADM ring network.