• DocumentCode
    1362329
  • Title

    Effect of bit pattern misalignment on coherent crosstalk in optical add/drop multiplexers

  • Author

    Shen, Yunfeng ; Lu, C. ; Cheng, T.H. ; Rao, M.K.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    7/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    891
  • Lastpage
    893
  • Abstract
    We studied the impact of coherent crosstalk on system performance in optical add-drop multiplexers (OADM´s) in both aligned and misaligned bit pattern cases. The concept of fading penalty is introduced to evaluate the impact. The results indicate that bit pattern misalignment will reduce the impact of coherent crosstalk when the crosstalk level is low and the number of crosstalk paths is large, but will increase it when these conditions are not satisfied.
  • Keywords
    light coherence; optical crosstalk; wavelength division multiplexing; aligned bit pattern case; bit pattern misalignment; coherent crosstalk; crosstalk level; crosstalk paths; fading penalty; misaligned bit pattern cases; optical add-drop multiplexers; optical add/drop multiplexers; system performance; Add-drop multiplexers; Bit error rate; Fading; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical crosstalk; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; System performance; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/68.853540
  • Filename
    853540