Title :
Dispersion in long-haul lightwave systems
Author_Institution :
Crawford Hill Lab., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
The necessity of using or mitigating the effects of fiber nonlinearity has forced designers to consider the distribution of chromatic dispersion in lightwave systems. We discuss dispersion management techniques and methods for mapping the dispersion distribution achieved.
Keywords :
intermodulation distortion; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; stimulated Raman scattering; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM systems; chromatic dispersion distribution mapping; cross-phase modulation; dispersion management techniques; fiber nonlinearity effects; four-wave mixing; long-haul lightwave systems; self-phase modulation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; stimulated Raman scattering; Brillouin scattering; Chromatic dispersion; Frequency; Laboratories; Optical amplifiers; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Power system management; Scanning probe microscopy; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1996. LEOS 96., IEEE
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3160-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1996.565144
