Title :
Nonlinear suppression of incoherent interferometric crosstalk using dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror
Author :
Chai, Y.J. ; Khrushchev, I.Y. ; White, I.H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Bristol Univ., UK
fDate :
8/31/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The suppression of interchannel interferometric crosstalk and reduction of the extinction-ratio induced power penalty have been demonstrated by means of nonlinear switching in a dispersion-imbalanced fibre loop mirror (DILM)
Keywords :
error statistics; interference suppression; light interferometers; mirrors; nonlinear filters; nonlinear optics; optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre filters; optical noise; optical switches; dispersion-imbalanced fibre loop mirror; dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror; extinction-ratio induced power penalty; incoherent interferometric crosstalk; interchannel interferometric crosstalk; interferometric crosstalk suppression; nonlinear suppression; nonlinear switching;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20001117
