Abstract
Emerging applications of lightwave technology will use wave-length-division multiplexing or optical frequency-division multiplexing to access the bandwidth of optical fiber and to provide network functions such as routing, switching, and service segregation. One possible implementation for crossconnect and packet-switched applications consists of tunable laser transmitters, a passive star coupler, and fixed-wavelength receivers ,l-5 As the emission wavelength of a transmitter laser is switched from one value to another, it may momentarily co-incide with intermediate wavelengths being used by other transmitter lasers. The resultant switching-induced interferente may degrade system performance. In this paper the implications of this interference are experimentally and theoretically assessed for CPFSK lightwave systems with both heterodyne detection and noncoherent detection.
© 1994 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
B. R. Hemenway, M. L. Stevens, and S. B. Alexander
TuI1 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 1994
I. Roudas, Y. Jaouën, and P. Gallion
CThI33 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 1994
Ryo Koma, Kazutaka Hara, Takuya Kanai, Jun-ichi Kani, and Tomoaki Yoshida
Mo4C.3 European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2022