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Effect of dispersion on nonlinear phase noise in optical transmission systems
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada. kumars@mail.ece.mcmaster.edu
Abstract:
An analytic expression for the variance of nonlinear phase noise that uses a first-order perturbation technique is obtained. The results show that for highly dispersive transmission systems, amplified spontaneous emission-induced phase noise due to self-phase modulation becomes much smaller than that for the systems with no dispersion.
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