Title :
The effect of intra-link power perturbations on channel performance
Author :
Hou-Man Chin;Benn C. Thomsen;Seb J. Savory
Author_Institution :
Optical Networks Group, University College London
Abstract :
87,040 link realisations were used to experimentally investigate the impact on system outage when there is uncertainty in the power profile for a 10×100 km optical link. Probabilistic link design reveals a lower optimum launch power that reduces the probability of outage.
Keywords :
"Bit error rate","Probabilistic logic","Optical transmitters","Uncertainty","Optical switches","Nonlinear optics","Power measurement"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341635
