Bidirectional transmission to suppress interwavelength-band nonlinear interactions in ultrawide-band WDM transmission systems

Author

Kani, J. ; Jinno, M. ; Sakamoto, T. ; Hattori, K. ; Oguchi, K.

Author_Institution

NTT Opt. Network Syst. Labs., Yokosuka, Japan

Volume

11

Issue

3

fYear

1999

fDate

3/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

376

Lastpage

378

Abstract

Interwavelength-band nonlinear interactions are investigated as possible causes of performance degradation in ultrawide band wavelength-division-multiplexed transmission. These interactions can severely limit the performance of transmission over dispersion-shifted fibers (DSFs) and nonzero DSFs. Bidirectional transmission is found to be effective in suppressing interwavelength-band nonlinear interactions.

Keywords

digital communication; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; stimulated Raman scattering; wavelength division multiplexing; bidirectional transmission; dispersion-shifted fibers; interwavelength-band nonlinear interactions; nonlinear interactions suppression; nonzero DSF; performance degradation; ultrawide-band WDM transmission systems; wavelength-division-multiplexed transmission; Degradation; Four-wave mixing; Nonlinear distortion; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical modulation; Raman scattering; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.748241

Filename

748241