DocumentCode
843507
Title
Impacts of cascaded filters with group delay ripples on 40-Gb/s WDM transmission system
Author
Zhu, Lin ; Chen, Minghua ; Zhang, Yejin ; Xie, Shizhong
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Volume
14
Issue
11
fYear
2002
Firstpage
1518
Lastpage
1520
Abstract
The effect of time-delay ripples on 40-Gb/s filter cascaded systems and multispan transmission systems is investigated for the first time. Through numerical simulations, it is shown that the ripple amplitude basically determines the system performance in the practical transmission system.
Keywords
delays; optical fibre communication; optical filters; wavelength division multiplexing; 40 Gbit/s; WDM transmission system; cascaded filters; cascaded systems; group delay ripples; multispan transmission systems; numerical simulations; optical fibre filters; practical transmission system; ripple amplitude; system performance; time-delay ripples; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bandwidth; Degradation; Delay; Optical distortion; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical signal processing; System performance; Wavelength division multiplexing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1041-1135
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/LPT.2002.803330
Filename
1041988
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