Impact of cross-phase modulation seeded modulation instability in 10 Gbit/s WDM systems and methods for its suppression

Author

Saunders, R.A. ; Patel, B.L. ; Harvey, H.J. ; Robinson, A.

Author_Institution

Nortel Technol., Harlow, UK

fYear

1997

Firstpage

116

Lastpage

117

Abstract

Fiber suppliers now manufacture nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber (NZDSF), which is dispersion shifted but has a finite dispersion in the erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) transmission window, to minimize four-wave mixing (FWM). The choice of which sign of dispersion offers the best performance depends on several factors, such as self-phase modulation/dispersion pulse shaping and modulation instability (MI), which occurs on anomalous dispersion fiber. We show, for the first time to our knowledge, that amplitude cross talk due to cross-phase modulation (XPM) can also act as a seed for the MI process, giving an increased penalty for wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) systems using anomalous dispersion fiber

Keywords

fibre lasers; modulational instability; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre theory; optical modulation; phase modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; EDFA transmission window; Gbit/s WDM systems; MI process; WDM; amplitude cross talk; anomalous dispersion fiber; cross-phase modulation; cross-phase modulation seeded modulation instability suppression; dispersion shifted; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; fiber suppliers; fibre dispersion sign; finite dispersion; four-wave mixing; nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber; wavelength-division multiplexing; Couplings; Ear; Kerr effect; Maxwell equations; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Optimized production technology; Raman scattering; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

1-55752-480-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1997.719743

Filename

719743