Phased-array cancellation of nonlinear FWM in coherent OFDM dispersive multi-span links

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 15777-15810

  Nazarathy, Moshe ^a   Khurgin, Jacob ^b   Weidenfeld, Rakefet ^a   Meiman, Yehuda ^c   Cho, Pak ^c   Noe, Reinhold ^d   Shpantzer, Isaac ^c   Karagodsky, Vadim ^e  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CeLight Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSION COMPENSATION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OFFSHORE PIPELINES; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; COHERENT OFDM SYSTEMS; COHERENT OPTICAL-ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ELECTRONIC DISPERSION COMPENSATION; INTER-MODULATION PRODUCTS; OPTICAL COMPENSATION; OPTICAL DISPERSION COMPENSATION; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA SYSTEMS;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 54749125061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015777     Document Type: Article

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