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Transmission of Multiple Signals through an Optical Fiber Using Wavefront Shaping
Published on: March 20, 2017
Numerical discrimination of intrachannel cross-phase modulation and intrachannel four-wave mixing and their
Mathieu Lefrançois1, Eric Barnasson, Gabriel Charlet
1Alcatel Research and Innovation, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France.
Abstract:
We propose a numerical method to accurately discriminate the influence of the different intrachannel nonlinear effects occurring in 40 Gbit/s optical transmissions, following an analogy with methods used to discriminate WDM interchannel effects. In contrast to other studies showing the predominance of intrachannel cross-phase modulation when low-dispersion fibers are used, in our study intrachannel four-wave mixing is the most penalizing effect in all investigated cases.
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