Four Wave Mixing (FWM) Spring 2004 EE290F Xiaoxue Zhao
Contents Origin of FWM Effect on WDM systems Solutions Polarization Allocation Unequal Channel Spacing Dispersion Management
Origin of FWM [1] Third order nonlinearity Energy Conservation Momentum Conservation—phase matching
Origin of FWM—Phase Matching [2]
Effects on WDM Systems [2] Channel spacing and fiber dispersion are small enough
Effects on WDM Systems [3] Nonlinear Crosstalk equally spacing, product terms fall at channel frequency Coherent interference
Effects on WDM Systems [4] Bit pattern Power Depletion
Effects on WDM Systems—Solutions Polarization Allocation Unequal spacing Dispersion management
Polarization Allocation [5]
Add polarization filter at the receiver end
Unequal Channel Spacing [6]
Dispersion-Management [4] No dispersion-zero point Total accumulated dispersion near zero
Dispersion Management [7] Dispersion map for dispersion- compensating fiber (DCF) Small core area
New Type of Fibers Large effective area fiber Nonzero dispersion shifted fiber (NZ-DSF) large-effective-area fiber (red) suppressed four-wave mixing crosstalk to dB, compared to dB for NZ-DSF fiber (blue).
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