Abstract
We show that, in an all-optical link-controlled EDFA cascade, power penalty caused by relaxation oscillations from the first gain-clamped EDFA rapidly increases along the link, in contrast to the case of a link in which each amplifier is gain-clamped.
© 1997 Optical Society of America
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