Title :
Measurement of system penalty due to multipath interference
Author :
Taylor, M.G. ; Craig, D. ; Sardesai, H.P. ; Khot, A. ; Zheng, W.
Author_Institution :
CIENA Corp., Linthicum, MD
Abstract :
The impact of multipath interference (MPI) arising from dispersion compensation modules is measured in an experiment designed to isolate this effect from all others. It is found that MPI acts as an additional source of noise, and the amount of noise is quantified
Keywords :
compensation; interference (signal); modules; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; dispersion compensation modules; multipath interference; noise; system penalty;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN :
87-90974-63-8