In this paper, we compared the effects of crosstalk in WDM systems using laser sources between using spectruinsliced light sources by using the Gaussian noise approximation. Compared with the system using laser sources, the intraband crosstalk in the system using spectrum-sliced light sources are uiuch Iess sensitive by signal power and crosstalk power, this is mainly because the spectrum-sliced light source have relatively broad optical bandwidth, the signal-crosstalk beat noise is reduced rapidly as the beat components become spread outside of the receiver's bandwidth.

Date Published: 29 August 2002
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 4905, Materials and Devices for Optical and Wireless Communications, (29 August 2002); doi: 10.1117/12.481046

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4905:
Materials and Devices for Optical and Wireless Communications
Constance J. Chang-Hasnain; YuXing Xia; Kenichi Iga, Editor(s)