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Minimum channel spacing in wavelength-division-multiplexed nonreturn-to-zero optical fiber transmissions
Optics Letters
|November 3, 2009
Abstract:
Cross-phase-modulation-induced instability and collisions lead to a minimum channel spacing in dispersionmanaged wavelength-division-multiplexed nonreturn-to-zero transmissions. We obtain a simple analytical description of these instabilities and confirm the results by numerical simulations.
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