Limitations in long haul IM/DD optical fibre systems caused by chromatic dispersion and nonlinear Kerr effect |
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Authors: | Hamaide J.P. Emplit P. Gabriagues J.M. |
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Affiliation: | Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; |
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Abstract: | The power penalty induced by dispersion, Kerr nonlinearity and attenuation is numerically investigated for long haul IM/DD systems with cascaded optical amplifiers. The authors demonstrate that the eye opening is critically dependant on the input mean power.<> |
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