Title :
Evaluation of extinction ratio induced performance penalty due to interferometric noise
Author :
Mitchell, J.E. ; Lane, P.M. ; O´Reilly, J.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, UK
fDate :
6/10/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A rigorous assessment of the impact of finite extinction ratio in systems corrupted with interferometric noise is presented. In contrast to previous work it is shown that the extinction ratio has minimal effect on the overall crosstalk tolerance, with signal-crosstalk beating between data `1´ terms being dominant
Keywords :
light interference; optical crosstalk; optical fibre networks; optical noise; crosstalk tolerance; extinction ratio induced performance penalty; finite extinction ratio; interferometric noise; optical networks; signal-crosstalk;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19990692
