Experimental comparison of the effect of discrete and distributed path inband crosstalk on system performance: Application to predicting system performance penalties

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1813-1821

  Yadlowsky, M J ^a   da Silva, V L ^b  

^a Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Error analysis; Optical communications; Optical crosstalk; Optical noise

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CROSSTALK; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

OPTICAL NOISE;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0032184157     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.721068     Document Type: Review

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