Title :
Timing jitter due to intra-channel nonlinearities in an installed fiber optic network
Author :
Lenihan, A.S. ; Tudury, G.E. ; Carter, G.M. ; Sinkin, O.V. ; Marks, B. ; Menyuk, C.R. ; Runser, R.J. ; Goldman, A. ; Lehman, T.
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Phys. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
We report field measurements of intra-channel nonlinearity-induced timing jitter in an installed fiber transmission system. The timing jitter is strongly dependent on the distribution of dispersion compensation, in agreement with numerical simulation results.
Keywords :
nonlinear optics; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; timing jitter; dispersion compensation; fiber optic network; field measurements; installed fiber transmission system; intrachannel nonlinearities; timing jitter;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
