Impact of electrostriction-induced acoustic interactions on transmission performances of WDM signals over standard fibers

Year: 2006

Authors: Fellegara A., Wabnitz S.

Autors Affiliation: Wind Telecomunicazioni, 00148 Rome, Italy; Dipartimento di Elettronica per l\’Automazione, Università di Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy; Laboratoire de Physique, Université de Bourgogne, UMR CNRS 5027, 21078 Dijon-Cedex, France

Abstract: We study the effect of power and phase distortions as induced by cross-phase modulation and electrostrictive nonlincarity in dispersive optical fibers. We obtain, evaluate, and discuss simple analytical expressions for the intensity and phase crosstalk in the presence of electrostriction between two wavelength channels copropagating in a standard, step core index profile fiber. The present model provides a simple estimate of the impact of electrostriction on the transmission performance of fiber optic communication systems.

Journal/Review: IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS

Volume: 18 (1)      Pages from: 202  to: 204

KeyWords: Brillouin scattering; Communication channels (information theory); Optical fibers; Phase modulation; Wavelength division multiplexing, Fiber optic communication systems; Optical fiber nonlincarity; Transverse Brillouin effect, Electrostriction
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.861633

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