Performance of Coherent Optical Communication Systems With Hybrid Fiber Spans
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Miranda, L.; Roudas, I.; Downie, J. D.; Mlejnek, M.
- Source
- 2017 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Optical Communication (ECOC), 2017 European Conference on. :1-3 Sep, 2017
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Optical fiber communication
Optical fiber dispersion
Optical fiber theory
Optical fiber amplifiers
Q-factor
Gaussian noise
- Language
We theoretically study the performance of coherent optical communication systems using quasi-single-mode fiber in the beginning of each span, to reduce the bulk of nonlinearities, followed by single-mode fiber, to limit multipath interference penalty within acceptable levels.