Separate Evaluation of Nonlinearity-Due Q Penalties in Long-Haul Very Dense WDM Optical Systems

Livio Paradiso,Pierpaolo Boffi,Lucia Marazzi,Nicola Dalla Vecchia,Massimo Artiglia,Mario Martinelli

Separate Evaluation of Nonlinearity-Due Q Penalties in Long-Haul Very Dense WDM Optical Systems

2005

Livio Paradiso
Pierpaolo Boffi
Lucia Marazzi
Nicola Dalla Vecchia
Massimo Artiglia
Mario Martinelli

Nonlinearity-due Q penalties are experimentally evaluated on a 2000-km, 33-GHz spaced DWDM system, dependently on system length and channel spacing. SPM, FWM and XPM, which is found to be the major constrain, are separately addressed.

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Electronic engineering
Physics
Wavelength-division multiplexing
Nonlinear system
Channel spacing
Optics
residual dispersion

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