DocumentCode
295675
Title
Unequal channel spacings to reduce four-wave mixing crosstalk in WDM networks
Author
Hwang, Bohyeon ; Tonguz, Ozan K.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
Volume
1
fYear
1995
fDate
30-31 Oct 1995
Firstpage
208
Abstract
Four-wave mixing (FWM) is the most serious fiber nonlinearity in long-haul multichannel optical systems employing dispersion-shifted fiber. To reduce the crosstalk due to FWM, a general suboptimum unequally spaced channel allocation technique is proposed and analyzed
Keywords
frequency allocation; multiwave mixing; optical crosstalk; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibres; wavelength division multiplexing; 1 Gbit/s; 1550 nm; 2000 GHz; WDM networks; bandwidth minimization; dispersion-shifted fiber; fiber nonlinearity; four-wave mixing crosstalk reduction; long-haul multichannel optical systems; power penalty reduction; suboptimum channel allocation technique; unequal channel spacings; Bandwidth; Channel spacing; Chromatic dispersion; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Intelligent networks; Nonlinear optics; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber networks; WDM networks;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1995. 8th Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, Volume 1., IEEE
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN
0-7803-2450-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LEOS.1995.484835
Filename
484835
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