Title :
Electronic WDM crosstalk cancellation
Author :
Poirrier, Julien ; Buchali, Fred ; Bülow, Henning
Author_Institution :
Alcatel Res. & Innovation, Stuttgart, Germany
Abstract :
We report the electronic cancellation of WDM demux crosstalk at 10 Gb/s. We demonstrate a power penalty reduction of up to 2 dB for an optically amplified system, and 1 dB for a thermal noise limited system. We also analyse and quantify the limits of such a technique in a real system.
Keywords :
crosstalk; demultiplexing equipment; interference suppression; thermal noise; wavelength division multiplexing; demultiplexing crosstalk; electronic WDM crosstalk cancellation; optically amplified system; power penalty reduction; thermal noise limited system; Bit rate; Bragg gratings; Costs; Fiber gratings; Optical attenuators; Optical crosstalk; Optical filters; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989448
