Investigation on modified FWM suppression methods in DWDM optical communication system

• Published in: Optics communications Vol. 282; no. 3; pp. 392 - 395
• Main Authors: Singh, Amarpal, Sharma, Ajay K., Kamal, T.S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01-02-2009; Elsevier
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Channel spacing; DWDM; Exact sciences and technology; Four Wave Mixing (FWM); Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications); Nonlinear optics; Optical telecommunications; Optics; Phase conjugation, optical mixing; photorefractive and kerr effects; Physics; Polarization; Telecommunications; Telecommunications and information theory; Polarization; Channel spacing; DWDM; Four Wave Mixing (FWM); Optical system; Optical polarization; Optical telecommunication; Non linear optics; Wavelength division multiplexing; Optical coupling; ps range; Four wave mixing
• ISSN: 0030-4018; 1873-0310
• DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.10.014

The focus of this paper is to investigate the methods for Four Wave Mixing (FWM) suppression. Modified techniques equal and unequal-channel spacing with polarization, equal channel spacing with alternate channel delay, optical coupling and varied laser power have been proposed to reduce the impact of FWM on Dense Wave Length Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical communication system. Further the comparison of reduction of FWM for existing and proposed techniques has been discussed by varying the dispersion of fiber from 0 to 16
ps/nm/km. It has been observed that the suggested techniques are simpler to design optical communication system and superior to the existing methods.