We show that, in a typical terrestrial WDM system, the intra-channel nonlinearity-induced Q fluctuation is comparable to that due to PDL alone, and the inter-channel nonlinearity dominates Q fluctuations at narrow channel spacings.
Published in:
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Date of Conference: 21-26 May 2006