DocumentCode
1556075
Title
Limitations in dense bidirectional transmission in absence of optical amplification
Author
Radic, S. ; Chandrasekar, S.
Author_Institution
Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Volume
14
Issue
1
fYear
2002
Firstpage
95
Lastpage
97
Abstract
We investigate impairments induced by Rayleigh backscattering in the case of very dense bidirectional optical transmission. It is found that the severe penalty for the worst case scenario of spectrally overlapping counterpropagating channels can be mitigated by controlling channel polarization states.
Keywords
Rayleigh scattering; backscatter; light transmission; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; Rayleigh backscattering; bidirectional transmission; channel polarization states; dense bidirectional optical transmission; nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber; optical amplification; spectrally overlapping counterpropagating channels; wavelength-division multiplexing; Backscatter; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1041-1135
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/68.974173
Filename
974173
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