Title :
Dispersion-compensating fiber: is there merit in the figure of merit?
Author :
Forghieri, Fabrizio ; Tkach, R.W. ; Chraplyvy, A.R. ; Vengsarkar, A.M.
Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
fDate :
25 Feb.-1 March 1996
Abstract :
Summary form only given. This paper investigates how dispersion, loss, and effective area of a dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) interplay to determine the performance of a system, and introduces the new figure of merit Fnl, which describes the quality of a DCF from a system performance point of view. This is accomplished by evaluating the performance degradation that a DCF with given values of dispersion, loss and effective area introduces compared with a system with an ideal dispersion compensator.
Keywords :
optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre theory; dispersion; dispersion-compensating fiber; effective area; figure of merit; loss; performance degradation; Bit error rate; Brillouin scattering; Dispersion; Filters; Magneto electrical resistivity imaging technique; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber losses; Performance loss; Signal generators; System performance;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications, 1996. OFC '96
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-422-X
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.1996.908275
