Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) 2009
Abstract: It is shown that the impact of interchannel nonlinear effects in wavelength-division multiplexed fiber-optic transmission systems depends on channel spacing, the fiber’s group-velocity dispersion and its attenuation coefficient, condensed into a single dimensionless parameter.
Reference:
J. K. Fischer, M. Winter, K. Petermann, “Scaling of Nonlinear Threshold with Fiber Type and Channel Spacing in WDM Transmission Systems,” Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC), San Diego, paper JThA41, 22-26 Mar. 2009