Optical Fiber Communications 4th Edition by Gerd Keiser

Exercise 4

Analogous to Fig.13.34, use Eq. (13.22) to plot the gain G = q/p as a function of the number of wavelengths F for blocking probabilities P b = 10 -4 and 10 -5. Use the same hopping number values H = 5, 10, and 20. For H = 20, plot G versus F on the same graph for blocking probabilities P b = 10 -3 , 10 -4 , and 10 5. What is the effect on the gain as the blocking probability increases