Fast analytical assessment of the signal quality in transparent optical networks

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 815-823

  Pachnicke, Stephan ^a   Reichert, Jörg ^b   Spälter, Stefan ^b   Voges, Edgar ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical communications; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber nonlinearity; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CROSSTALK; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHASE MODULATION; ROUTERS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL CROSSTALK; OPTICAL FIBER NONLINEARITY; SIGNAL QUALITY; TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 33947693290     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.862472     Document Type: Article

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