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Transmission of Multiple Signals through an Optical Fiber Using Wavefront Shaping
Published on: March 20, 2017
Intrachannel four-wave mixing in highly dispersed return-to-zero differential-phase-shift-keyed transmission with a
Xing Wei1, Xiang Liu, Steven H Simon
1Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, USA. xingwei@lucent.com
Abstract:
Nonlinear penalties due to intrachannel four-wave mixing (IFWM) in highly dispersed return-to-zero differential-phase-shift-keyed transmission are studied for both symmetric and nonsymmetric dispersion maps. As the dispersion map changes from symmetric to nonsymmetric, the nonlinear amplitude fluctuation overtakes the effect of the nonlinear phase fluctuation and dominates the system's nonlinear performance. The effect of IFWM on the bit error rate is assessed by using the semianalytical method.
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