Limitations in 10 Gb/s WDM optical-fiber transmission when using a variety of fiber types to manage dispersion and nonlinearities

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1144-1152

  Zou, X Y ^b   Imran Hayee, M ^b,c,d   Hwang, S M ^b   Willner, Alan E ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; PHASE MODULATION; RAMAN SCATTERING;

CROSS PHASE MODULATION; DISPERSION COMPENSATING FIBERS; DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBER TRANSMISSION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0030164840     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.511616     Document Type: Article

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