Investigating the limits of optical packet transmission through cascaded transient-suppressed EDFAs without regeneration or active gain control

Using a transmission loop, we show the maximum number of cascaded conventional- EDFAs is gain-transient limited for packet transmission and demonstrate error-free, noise limited packet transmission across 44 transient-suppressed EDFA's without active gain-transient control or regeneration.

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