Title :
Evaluation on system outage due to statistically distributed chromatic dispersion of optical fiber
Author :
Ji, H.-C. ; Lee, J.H. ; Chung, Yun C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
We evaluated the outage probability and scalability of high-speed (>40 Gb/s) optical network caused by the statistically distributed chromatic dispersion of optical fibers. This was to identify when we should use tunable dispersion compensators at every channel.
Keywords :
optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical tuning; statistical distributions; wavelength division multiplexing; chromatic dispersion; optical fiber; optical network; tunable dispersion compensators;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-772-5
