Evaluation by Monte Carlo simulations of the power limits and bit-error rate degradation in wavelength-division multiplexing networks caused by four-wave mixing

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 5023-5032

  Neokosmidis, Ioannis ^a   Kamalakis, Thomas ^a   Chipouras, Aristides ^a   Sphicopoulos, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CROSS-PHASE MODULATION; FIBER NONLINEARITIES; POWER LIMITS; SPACE STATES;

WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 4944231033     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005023     Document Type: Article

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