EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON OF THE EFFECT OF DISCRETE AND DISTRIBUTED PATH INBAND CROSSTALK ON SYSTEM PERFORMANCE - APPLICATION TO PREDICTING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE PENALTIES
Mj. Yadlowsky et Vl. Dasilva, EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON OF THE EFFECT OF DISCRETE AND DISTRIBUTED PATH INBAND CROSSTALK ON SYSTEM PERFORMANCE - APPLICATION TO PREDICTING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE PENALTIES, Journal of lightwave technology, 16(10), 1998, pp. 1813-1821
The system performance degradations of inband crosstalk produced by di
stributed Rayleigh scattering and a single discrete time delayed path
have been measured in the same system, Rayleigh scatter crosstalk degr
ades performance more than equal amounts of discrete crosstalk, By par
ameterizing the system bit error rate (BER) and received power, we hav
e separated the optical and electrical noise contributions to the BER
based on their intensity and crosstalk scaling. We observed behavior c
onsistent with earlier models, but found an unexpected increase in the
total optical noise. This excess noise had a very regular linear scal
ing with crosstalk power. Because of;its well defined crosstalk and in
tensity scaling, this easily measured noise term can be used as a corr
ection to established models to more accurately estimate system perfor
mance at high optical powers and low crosstalk levels.