Influence of the extinction ratio on the intrachannel nonlinear distortion of 40-Gb/s return-to-zero transmission systems over standard fiber

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1447-1457

  Fonseca, Daniel ^a,b   Cartaxo, Adolfo V T ^b   Monteiro, Paulo P ^a,c  

^a Siemens Portugal   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Extinction ratio (ER); Intrachannel nonlinear distortion; Pseudolinear regime; Return to zero (RZ); Solitonic regime

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NONLINEAR DISTORTION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHASE MODULATION; SOLITONS; TIMING JITTER;

EXTINCTION RATIO; INTRACHANNEL NONLINEAR DISTORTION; RETURN-TO-ZERO TRANSMISSION SYSTEM; SOLITONIC REGIME;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 34250881552     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.895544     Document Type: Article

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