Title :
Quantitative study of the performance statistics of WDM systems under different channel spacings
Author :
Wen, Jiping ; Griggio, Paola ; Hu, Jonathan ; Van, Luc ; Carter, Gary M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstract :
We show that: fiber drift contributes noticeably to the performance fluctuations of a typical terrestrial WDM system; diminishing channel spacing decreases polarization-dependent loss-induced performance fluctuations, but it can be offset by inter-channel crosstalk.
Keywords :
channel spacing; optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; channel spacing; fiber drift; inter-channel crosstalk; performance fluctuation; performance statistics; polarization-dependent loss; terrestrial WDM system; Channel spacing; Crosstalk; Fluctuations; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Page description languages; Performance loss; Signal to noise ratio; Statistics; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202117
