• DocumentCode
    2944146
  • Title

    Dispersion-compensating fiber: is there merit in the figure of merit?

  • Author

    Forghieri, Fabrizio ; Tkach, R.W. ; Chraplyvy, A.R. ; Vengsarkar, A.M.

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    25 Feb.-1 March 1996
  • Firstpage
    255
  • Lastpage
    257
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given. This paper investigates how dispersion, loss, and effective area of a dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) interplay to determine the performance of a system, and introduces the new figure of merit Fnl, which describes the quality of a DCF from a system performance point of view. This is accomplished by evaluating the performance degradation that a DCF with given values of dispersion, loss and effective area introduces compared with a system with an ideal dispersion compensator.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre theory; dispersion; dispersion-compensating fiber; effective area; figure of merit; loss; performance degradation; Bit error rate; Brillouin scattering; Dispersion; Filters; Magneto electrical resistivity imaging technique; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber losses; Performance loss; Signal generators; System performance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications, 1996. OFC '96
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-422-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.1996.908275
  • Filename
    908275
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2944146