Limitation to WDM transmission distance due to cross-phase modulation induced spectral broadening in dispersion compensated standard fiber systems

Author

Mikhailov, V. ; Killey, R.I. ; Prat, J. ; Bayvel, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, UK

Volume

11

Issue

8

fYear

1999

Firstpage

994

Lastpage

996

Abstract

We describe large spectral broadening due to the interaction of cross-phase modulation/self-phase modulation and fiber dispersion, and explain its contribution to the penalties in standard fiber systems pre- and postcompensated by dispersion compensating fiber. To our knowledge, this is the first measurement of this effect in a dense WDM transmission system at 10 Gb/s with this dispersion management scheme and good agreement is reported with the numerical modeling results.

Keywords

compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; self-phase modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; WDM transmission distance; cross-phase modulation induced spectral broadening; dispersion compensated standard fiber systems; dispersion compensating fiber; dispersion management scheme; self-phase modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Optical saturation; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.775324

Filename

775324