Analysis of bit error rate and power penalty for a birefringent wavelength division multiplexer |
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| Authors: | B. Foley S. Cousins P. Melman |
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| Affiliation: | GTE Laboratories Incorporated, 40 Sylvan Road , Waltham, Massachusetts, 02254 |
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| Abstract: | The power penalty and bit error rate degradation encountered when using wavelength division multiplexing devices is analyzed. Analysis is applied to the birefringent wavelength division multiplexer (BWDM) with a sinusoidal transfer function.1 The degradation in bit error rate is attributed to laser mode partition noise and crosstalk noise. |
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| Keywords: | ASE ASK chromatic dispersion coherent systems IM-DD Kerr midpoint spectral inversion solitons |
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