• DocumentCode
    1043986
  • Title

    Effect of fibre dispersion on four-wave mixing in multichannel coherent optical transmission system

  • Author

    Walker, Geoffrey R. ; Spirit, D.M. ; Chidgey, P.J. ; Bryant, E.G.

  • Author_Institution
    BT Labs., Ipswich, UK
  • Volume
    28
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1992
  • fDate
    5/21/1992 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    989
  • Lastpage
    991
  • Abstract
    Severe bit error rate degradations and strong error rate floors caused by fibre four-wave mixing (FWM) in a high launch power, seven channel, coherent optical transmission system are reported. The critical influence of fibre chronic dispersion is highlighted, with a negligible penalty after transmission over conventional step index fibre, even for a launch power of +17 dBm. Several orders of FWM products are visible in the optical spectra for dispersion shifted fibre.
  • Keywords
    frequency division multiplexing; multiwave mixing; optical dispersion; optical fibres; optical links; FWM; FWM products; bit error rate degradations; coherent optical transmission; dispersion shifted fibre; error rate floors; fibre chronic dispersion; fibre dispersion; four-wave mixing; high launch power; multichannel optical transmission; optical frequency division multiplexing; optical spectra; step index fibre;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19920629
  • Filename
    274679