Impact of nonlinear optical phenomena on dense wavelength division multiplexed transmission in fibre telecommunication systems

Abstract

In the paper results of analysis of nonlinear phenomena in optical fibres: Self-Phase Modulation, Cross-Phase Modulation, Four-Wave Mixing and Stimulated Raman Scattering and their influence on Dense-Wavelength Division Multiplexed system performance are reported. Different non-uniform optical channel allocation schemes based on ITU Recommendation G.692 100 GHz frequency grid are compared with uniform channel distribution. The level of nonlinear cross-talk is determined for different levels of the total optical power. As an example a 10 Gbit/s D-WDM dispersion-shifted single mode fibre link with dispersion-compensating fibres is envisaged. The directions for optimization of the system design in view of actual international standardization trends are pointed out.