Abstract
The effects of the randomness of dispersion-zero wavelength and relative channel location in high-speed wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) systems were analyzed. In dispersion-managed systems: the higher dispersion values improved system performance as a result of reduced self- and cross-phase modulation; and randomness of dispersion had an effect when lower dispersion values were used. In nondispersion-managed WDM systems, all the channels had to be placed on one side of dispersion-zero wavelength with an offset ≥0 nm.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 442-443 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS |
| Volume | 11 |
| State | Published - 1997 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO - Baltimore, MD, USA Duration: May 18 1997 → May 23 1997 |