Title :
Limitations in long haul IM/DD optical fibre systems caused by chromatic dispersion and nonlinear Kerr effect
Author :
Hamaide, J.P. ; Emplit, P. ; Gabriagues, J.M.
Author_Institution :
Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Abstract :
The power penalty induced by dispersion, Kerr nonlinearity and attenuation is numerically investigated for long haul IM/DD systems with cascaded optical amplifiers. The authors demonstrate that the eye opening is critically dependant on the input mean power.
Keywords :
optical Kerr effect; optical communication equipment; optical dispersion; optical fibres; optical links; Kerr nonlinearity; cascaded optical amplifiers; chromatic dispersion; direct detection; intensity modulation; long haul IM/DD optical fibre; nonlinear Kerr effect;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19900931
