{"title":"Wdm channel spacing in ultra long haul optical OFDM systems","authors":"L. Du, Arthur James Lowery, J. Armstrong","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519261","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the effect of WDM channel spacing on a 4000 km system using optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for dispersion compensation. We find that channel spacings > 25 GHz approach the single-channel nonlinear limit.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519261","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We investigate the effect of WDM channel spacing on a 4000 km system using optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for dispersion compensation. We find that channel spacings > 25 GHz approach the single-channel nonlinear limit.