• DocumentCode
    398964
  • Title

    Nonlinear inter-channel cross talk of linear optical amplifier (LOA) in DWDM applications

  • Author

    Awaji, Y. ; Inoue, J. ; Sotobayashi, H. ; Kubota, F. ; Ozeki, T.

  • Author_Institution
    Commun. Res. Lab., Tokyo, Japan
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    23-28 March 2003
  • Firstpage
    441
  • Abstract
    We investigated the third order nonlinear effect of linear optical amplifier (LOA) under the condition of amplification of 8ch* 10 Gb/s WDM signals. We observed the remarkable inter-channel cross talk caused by FWM in the saturated region.
  • Keywords
    multiwave mixing; optical crosstalk; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical wavelength conversion; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM; FWM; linear optical amplifier; nonlinear inter-channel cross talk; signal amplification; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-746-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2003.1248326
  • Filename
    1248326