Analysis of the impact of laser line width over RIN, power penalty and bit rate including higher-order dispersion in WDM systems

Abstract

This paper investigated the effect of laser line width over relative intensity noise (RIN), power penalty and bit rate at optical distances in the range of 100–10,000 km both analytically and graphically. It is also proposed and analyzed that by reducing the laser line width to the range of KHz, we can minimize the impact of RIN and power penalty under the individual and combined impact of higher-order dispersion parameters.