gaintransient in the case of linkfailure from network perspective. We then experimentally demonstrate that linkfailure causes this QoT degradation propagation at downstream nodes. We also demonstrate that burst-mode EDFA (BM-EDFA) [3, 4] suppress less than 0.3 dB while conventional C-EDFA achieves over 7.5 dB under 55% paths disconnection of a link. From simulation and …
Abstract
This paper identifies that a link failure causes temporal QoT degradation propagation of 40.2% existing paths in a whole network by conventional EDFA and experimentally demonstrates this transient degradation can be suppressed by burst-mode EDFA.