• DocumentCode
    1377472
  • Title

    Severe timing-jitter penalty caused by finite pump linewidth in transmission systems using dispersion compensation via mid-span spectral inversion

  • Author

    Gavrilovic, D. ; Marcenac, D.D.

  • Author_Institution
    BT Labs., BT&D Technol. Ltd., Ipswich, UK
  • Volume
    34
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    3/19/1998 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    577
  • Lastpage
    579
  • Abstract
    The authors show, for the first time, that pump linewidth can cause severe timing jitter penalties in transmission systems using dispersion compensation via mid-span spectral inversion (MSSI). A theoretical study of MSSI in 40 Gbit/s transmission systems is presented, and simple analytic formulas relating the pump linewidth to the transmission penalty are derived
  • Keywords
    jitter; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical links; optical pumping; semiconductor lasers; 40 Gbit/s; dispersion compensation; finite pump linewidth; mid-span spectral inversion; timing-jitter penalty; transmission penalty; transmission systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19980384
  • Filename
    674298