Cross-phase modulation from L-band amplifiers in WDM systems

Author

Pendock, G.J. ; Park, S.Y. ; Srivastava, A.K. ; Radio, S. ; Sulhoff, J.W. ; Wolf, C.L. ; Kantor, K. ; Sun, Y.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

473

Abstract

We have measured cross-phase modulation (CPM) at L-band in both dispersion shifted fiber (DSF) and conventional fiber (CF) and compared it to that produced in an amplifier. Our measurements, intended to simulate a twenty channel 10 Gb/s WDM system with 100 GHz channel spacing, show that the CPM produced in our L-band amplifier is negligible compared to that from DSF and a factor of nine lower than that from CF. We operate all twenty channels simultaneously in order to realistically mimic the cross-talk of a fully populated WDM system. These results show that CPM produced in L-band amplifiers is not necessarily a problem

Keywords

optical crosstalk; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; phase modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 100 GHz channel spacing; L-band amplifiers; WDM systems; conventional fiber; cross-phase modulation; cross-talk; dispersion shifted fiber; fully populated WDM system; twenty channel 10 Gb/s WDM system; Distortion measurement; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fluctuations; L-band; Phase modulation; Power amplifiers; Probes; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5634-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1999.811804

Filename

811804