Experimental Investigation of the Validity Domain of the Gaussian Noise Model over Dispersion Managed Systems (Orale)

Philippe Jennevé (1) , Petros Ramantanis (2) , Fabien Boitier (2) , Nicolas Dubreuil (1) , Sebastien Bigo (2)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Manolia
2 Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France [Nozay]

We measure the span-to-span noise covariance as indicator of Gaussian noise model accuracy over dispersion-managed systems. We found that covariance shouldn’t exceed 1/3 of variance, which occurs once residual dispersion per span exceeds 60ps/nm.

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Philippe Jennevé, Petros Ramantanis, Fabien Boitier, Nicolas Dubreuil, Sebastien Bigo. Experimental Investigation of the Validity Domain of the Gaussian Noise Model over Dispersion Managed Systems (Orale). Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Mar 2016, Anaheim, California United States. pp.W3I.3 ⟨10.1364/OFC.2016.W3I.3⟩. ⟨hal-01685539⟩