• DocumentCode
    2301325
  • Title

    Direct measurement of nonlinear WDM crosstalk using coherent optical detection

  • Author

    Reimer, M. ; Borowiec, A. ; Tang, X. ; Laperle, C. ; O´Sullivan, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Ciena Corp., Ottawa, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    23-27 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    322
  • Lastpage
    323
  • Abstract
    We present a direct measurement of the inter-channel Kerr effect on the optical field of a continuous-wave probe affected by an on-off-keyed 10 Gb/s pump. Measurements are used to verify predictions of the Manakov-PMD equation.
  • Keywords
    optical Kerr effect; wavelength division multiplexing; Manakov-PMD equation; coherent optical detection; continuous-wave probe; direct measurement; interchannel Kerr effect; nonlinear WDM crosstalk; on-off-keyed pump; optical field; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Optical variables measurement; Coherent detection; Polarization; XPM; XPolM;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Burlingame, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0731-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358622
  • Filename
    6358622