Observation of fuse effect discharge zone nonlinear velocity regime in erbium-doped fibres

abstract

The self-propelled and self-focusing catastrophic failure in optical fibres, usually designated as fibre fuse effect, is a self-destruction process induced by the propagated signal with optical power values above 1.0 W. Whilst this phenomenon was initial reported in 1988, only recently has it become a real concern for optical networks operators due to the signal power increase. Reported, for the first time, is the existence of a fuse effect discharge zone velocity nonlinear saturation regime, and experimental validation of the theoretical predictions recently developed using travelling solutions is provided.

keywords

OPTICAL-FIBERS; TEMPERATURE

subject category

Engineering

authors

Domingues, F; Frias, AR; Antunes, P; Sousa, AOP; Ferreira, RAS; Andre, PS

our authors

acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) through the NeCiRa project (FCT/China-2010/2012-0441.00), PEst-C/CTM/LA0011/2011, (SFRH/BD/69097/2010 and SFRH/BPD/76735/2011).

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