Title :
Direct measurement of nonlinear WDM crosstalk using coherent optical detection
Author :
Reimer, M. ; Borowiec, A. ; Tang, X. ; Laperle, C. ; O´Sullivan, M.
Author_Institution :
Ciena Corp., Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract :
We present a direct measurement of the inter-channel Kerr effect on the optical field of a continuous-wave probe affected by an on-off-keyed 10 Gb/s pump. Measurements are used to verify predictions of the Manakov-PMD equation.
Keywords :
optical Kerr effect; wavelength division multiplexing; Manakov-PMD equation; coherent optical detection; continuous-wave probe; direct measurement; interchannel Kerr effect; nonlinear WDM crosstalk; on-off-keyed pump; optical field; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Optical variables measurement; Coherent detection; Polarization; XPM; XPolM;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358622
