• DocumentCode
    990269
  • Title

    Mode partition noise caused by wavelength-dependent attenuation in lightwave systems

  • Author

    Tomita, Akihisa ; Duff, D.G. ; Cheung, N.K.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA
  • Volume
    19
  • Issue
    25
  • fYear
    1983
  • Firstpage
    1079
  • Lastpage
    1080
  • Abstract
    Power fluctuations among the longitudinal modes of laser diodes cause noise in the received signal after being filtered by a wavelength-dependent attenuation mechanism. We have developed a theoretical model to characterise this noise and studied degradation in lightwave system performance. Power penalties observed in a 432 Mbit/s wavelength division multiplexing system experiment agreed with theoretical predictions.
  • Keywords
    noise; optical communication; semiconductor junction lasers; 432 Mbit/s wavelength division multiplexing system; degradation; laser diodes; lightwave systems; longitudinal modes; mode partition noise; model; power fluctuations; wavelength-dependent attenuation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19830732
  • Filename
    4248292
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=990269