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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry
Published on: August 12, 2013
Single- and cross-channel nonlinear interference in the Gaussian Noise model with rectangular spectra
Abstract:
New semi-analytic formulas of the power spectral density (PSD) of single- and cross-channel nonlinear interference (NLI) in coherent optical links for which the Gaussian Noise (GN) model applies are presented. From the PSD, a new bound on cross-channel NLI power is obtained. The new formulas are useful to both quickly compute single- and cross-channel NLI power, and to test the accuracy of numerical routines that directly solve the double frequency integral in the GN reference formula.
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