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The rapidly increasing data traffic volumes will demand for very high transmission capacity and network nodes’ throughput. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology will be asked to support many channels on the same fiber, both in point-to-point links and in WDM optical networks. The transmission of a high number of wavelength channels in all these systems is a key issue. This paper analyzes this topic, in both high capacity links and optical networks, highlighting the impact of fiber non-linearity, and addressing the main source of impairments. This is done through the use of a semi-analytical model recently upgraded to account for all the contributions deriving from Kerr effects, particularly four-wave mixing and cross-phase modulation. The analysis reveals that more than one hundred of channels at 2.5 Gbit/s can be transmitted in point-to-point links whose length can span until the order of 1000 km, and 32 channels per fiber, at the previous bit rate, can be handled in WDM networks, without dispersion compensation. For a higher number of channels (e.g., 64) dispersion compensation is needed.
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Binetti, S., Chemiakina, S. & Sabella, R. Impact of Fiber Non-linearity in High Capacity WDM Systems and in Cross-Connected Backbone Networks. Photonic Network Communications 3, 237–243 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011447230835
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