System impact of fiber parametric gain in long-haul optical links

Author

Carena, A. ; Curri, V. ; Gaudino, R. ; Poggiolini, P. ; Benedetto, S.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettronica, Torino Univ., Italy

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

7-11 Jun 1998

Firstpage

906

Abstract

We study the effect of parametric gain in long-haul, optically amplified links. We started by introducing a formalism required to evaluate the spectral enhancement of amplified spontaneous emission noise due to the Kerr-effect non-linear interaction between the signal and noise. These results are then used to evaluate parametric gain-induced performance degradation on the system Q value. Finally we analyze long-haul links at 10 Gb/s using different dispersion compensation maps by evaluating the maximum reachable distance in each configuration. We show that less frequent dispersion compensation improves the system performance

Keywords

Kerr electro-optical effect; fibre lasers; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre theory; optical noise; spectral analysis; superradiance; 10 Gbit/s; EDFA; Kerr-effect nonlinear interaction; amplified spontaneous emission noise; dispersion compensation maps; fiber parametric gain; long-haul optical links; maximum reachable distance; optically amplified links; performance degradation; spectral enhancement; system Q value; system performance; Degradation; Dispersion; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical filters; Optical noise; Signal analysis; Stimulated emission; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1998. ICC 98. Conference Record. 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4788-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1998.685143

Filename

685143