The contribution to cross-phase modulation in L-band WDM systems from erbium-doped fiber amplifiers

Author

Pendock, G.J. ; Park, S.Y. ; Srivastava, A.K. ; Radic, S. ; Sulhoff, J.W. ; Wolf, C.L. ; Kantor, K. ; Sun, Y.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

11

Issue

12

fYear

1999

Firstpage

1578

Lastpage

1580

Abstract

It has been suggested that the level of cross-phase modulation (XPM) produced in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA´s) may be greater than that produced in the transmission fiber. We measure and compare the levels of XPM produced in an EDFA to that produced in both dispersion-shifted fiber (DSF) and conventional transmission fiber for a 10-Gb/s L-band wavelength-division-multiplexed system. Our results show that, for a system with twenty channels, the levels of XPM produced by our amplifier was negligible compared to that from the DSF, and a factor of approximately nine smaller than for the conventional fiber.

Keywords

erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; phase modulation; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; Gb/s L-band wavelength-division-multiplexed system; L-band WDM systems; cross-phase modulation; dispersion-shifted fiber; erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; transmission fiber; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; L-band; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Probes; Sun; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.806852

Filename

806852