IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 1993 · 84 citations · 7 references
EngineeringElectrical EngineeringOpticsOptoelectronicsPhotonicsChannel CapacityFiber OpticsNonlinear OpticsOptical AmplifiersOptical Communication SystemsOptical FibersNonlinear Effects In Optical AmplifiersNonlinear Fiber EffectsOptical Signal AmplificationOptical Transmission SystemsSingle-mode FibersSingle-mode Optical Fibers
The combination of amplifier noise and optical nonlinearities limits the maximum capacity of single-mode fibers in amplified lightwave systems. Using fundamental considerations, it is shown that the capacity of single-mode fibers in transcontinental amplified lightwave systems is not terabits/second but less than 100 Gb/s with ideal amplifiers, and significantly less in realistic systems.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
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