Fiber Longitudinal Power Profile Estimation Accounting for SOA Nonlinearities

Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany

Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

Authors:
Eldahrawy, Tarek; Lorences-Riesgo, Abel; Yang, Xin; Sampaio, Flavio; Hafermann, Hartmut; Frignac, Yann; Charlet, Gabriel

Abstract:
We show how the presence of SOA nonlinearities from both single channel booster or WDM inline amplifiers degrade the estimated power profile. We therefore propose and demonstrate a solution based on SOA digital modelling and removing the SOA signal distortion before performing PPE.