A mean field approach for simulating wavelength-division multiplexed systems

Author

Yu, T. ; Reimer, W.M. ; Grigoryan, V.S. ; Menyuk, C.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

Volume

12

Issue

4

fYear

2000

fDate

4/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

443

Lastpage

445

Abstract

We simulated many-channel, wavelength-division-multiplexed optical fiber transmission systems by following the full time-domain evolution for only a few channels around a target channel, white treating the rest of the channels as continuous-wave radiation. We show a good agreement between our approach and full numerical simulations. By using our approach, one can greatly reduce the computation time compared with full simulations.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optical fibre theory; telecommunication channels; time-domain analysis; wavelength division multiplexing; computation time; continuous-wave radiation; full numerical simulations; full simulations; full time-domain evolutio; many-channel WDM optical fiber transmission systems; mean field approach; target channel; wavelength-division multiplexed systems; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Computer science; Nearest neighbor searches; Numerical simulation; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber testing; Optical fibers; Time domain analysis; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.839046

Filename

839046