Impact of physical layer impairments in all-optical networks

Author

Pereira, Helder A. ; Chaves, Daniel A R ; Bastos-Filho, Carmelo J A ; Martins-Filho, Joaquim F.

Author_Institution

State Univ. of Pernambuco, Recife

fYear

2007

fDate

Oct. 29 2007-Nov. 1 2007

Firstpage

536

Lastpage

541

Abstract

We investigate the impact of different physical impairments in the performance of all-optical networks. The physical impairments considered are the gain saturation and amplified spontaneous emission noise depletion in amplifiers, homodyne crosstalk in optical switches, four wave mixing and polarization mode dispersion in the transmission fibers. Our simulation results are presented in terms of blocking probability of requested calls as a function of network device parameters.

Keywords

crosstalk; multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; superradiance; telecommunication switching; all-optical networks; amplified spontaneous emission noise depletion; amplifiers; blocking probability; four wave mixing; gain saturation; homodyne crosstalk; optical switches; physical layer impairments; polarization mode dispersion; transmission fibers; All-optical networks; Crosstalk; Four-wave mixing; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical noise; Optical switches; Physical layer; Polarization mode dispersion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Spontaneous emission; Optical Communications; Optical Noise; WDM;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 2007. IMOC 2007. SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Brazil

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0661-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0661-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2007.4404322

Filename

4404322