Transmission system with cross-phase modulation compensation
AssigneeNorthern Telecom Limited
InventorsDietmar Garthe, Ross Alexander Saunders, Alan Robinson, Maurice O'Sullivan, Rongqing Hui
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Abstract
In a WDM transmission system carrying amplitude modulated traffic in which significant cross-phase modulation occurs, each of the individual channels is pre-chirped at the transmitter with replicas, or low-pass filtered replicas of the amplitude modulation applied to each of the other channels. Prechirping of each individual channel with a replica of the amplitude modulation applied to that channel may be added in order additionally to provide compensation for self-phase modulation.
Claims10
In an optical transmission system having a transmitter having at least two optical channels amplitude modulated by associated electrical signals, which amplitude modulated optical signals are wavelength multiplexed on to an optical transmission path including a length of optical fibre exhibiting dispersion,
- a method of reducing the level of cross-talk appearing at the end of the fibre remote from the transmitter that is engendered by cross-phase modulation of one of the two amplitude modulated channels by the other,
- which method includes modulating, at the transmitter, the phase of said one amplitude modulated channel with a signal derived from the electrical modulation used to modulate the amplitude of said other amplitude modulated channel.
In an optical transmission system having a transmitter having at least two optical channels amplitude modulated by associated electrical signals, which amplitude modulated optical signals are wavelength multiplexed on to an optical transmission path including a length of optical fibre exhibiting dispersion,
- a method of reducing the level of cross-talk appearing at the end of the fibre remote from the transmitter that is engendered by cross-phase modulation of each of the amplitude modulated channels by each of the other channels,
- which method includes modulating, at the transmitter, the phase of each one of the amplitude modulated channels with signals derived from the electrical modulation used to modulate the amplitude of each of the other amplitude modulated channels.
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