Four-Wave Mixing Crosstalk in DWDM Optical Fiber Systems

Author

El-Halafawy, F.Z. ; Aly, M.H. ; EI-Bary, M.A.A.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electron. Eng., Menoufia Univ., Menouf

Volume

0

fYear

2006

fDate

14-16 March 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this study, we introduce the third nonlinear optical effect known as four-wave mixing (FWM), its implications in optical fiber systems and finally a proposed technique for channel allocation to reduce its effect. Then, we investigate the channel crosstalk due to the FWM for various values of: fiber length, core effective area, dispersion, channel spacing and channel power as a function of the number of multiplexed channels in a multi-channel system. Results show that, the ultimate factor, which degrades the system performance, is the FWM power

Keywords

channel allocation; multiwave mixing; optical crosstalk; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM optical fiber system; FWM crosstalk; channel allocation; channel spacing; core effective area; dense wavelength division multiplexing; dispersion fiber; four-wave mixing; multichannel system; third nonlinear optical effect; Channel allocation; Channel spacing; Degradation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Science Conference, 2006. NRSC 2006. Proceedings of the Twenty Third National

Conference_Location

Menoufiya

Print_ISBN

977-5031-84-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NRSC.2006.386358

Filename

4275155