Title :
Limitation to WDM transmission distance due to cross-phase modulation induced spectral broadening in dispersion compensated standard fiber systems
Author :
Mikhailov, V. ; Killey, R.I. ; Prat, J. ; Bayvel, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, UK
Abstract :
We describe large spectral broadening due to the interaction of cross-phase modulation/self-phase modulation and fiber dispersion, and explain its contribution to the penalties in standard fiber systems pre- and postcompensated by dispersion compensating fiber. To our knowledge, this is the first measurement of this effect in a dense WDM transmission system at 10 Gb/s with this dispersion management scheme and good agreement is reported with the numerical modeling results.
Keywords :
compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; self-phase modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; WDM transmission distance; cross-phase modulation induced spectral broadening; dispersion compensated standard fiber systems; dispersion compensating fiber; dispersion management scheme; self-phase modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Optical saturation; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
