Title :
Electronic versus optical mitigation of nonlinearities in 4×25 Gb/s WDM system for 100 Gb ethernet
Author :
Castrejón, R. Gutiérrez ; Duelk, M.
Author_Institution :
Inst. de Ing., Univ. Nac. Autonoma de Mexico, Coyoacan
Abstract :
A comparison between optical and electronic solutions to mitigate the SOA nonlinearities found in next-generation WDM-based 40-km Ethernet links is presented. The former solution exhibits better performance whereas the latter one is more cost-effective.
Keywords :
optical fibre LAN; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; Ethernet links; SOA nonlinearities; WDM system; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; distance 40 km; optical mitigation; wavelength division multiplexing; Bit error rate; Degradation; Ethernet networks; Optical distortion; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical saturation; Optical transmitters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, 2008 Digest of the
Conference_Location :
Acapulco
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1925-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1099-4742
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2008.4590535
