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
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