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Four-wave mixing in multispan dispersion-managed transmission links

Tyco Submarine Syst. Ltd. Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (impact factor: 2.19). 11/1998; DOI:10.1109/68.720301 pp.1481 - 1483
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ABSTRACT We report the first experimental measurement of resonances in four-wave mixing (FWM) fields caused by lumped amplification in wavelength-division-multiplexed systems. Our numerical model allows us to predict the FWM characteristics in great detail. We also show that the FWM is reduced by more than 20 dB when two channels are launched with orthogonal polarizations.

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Keywords

first experimental measurement
 
FWM
 
FWM characteristics
 
great detail
 
lumped amplification
 
resonances
 
wavelength-division-multiplexed systems
 

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