Abstract
The impact of fiber dispersion, system non-linearities and their interaction when varying the channel-spacing value, ranging from 200 to 800GHz, on the performance of a WDM 16×25Gb/s architecture that has been proposed as next 400Gb/s Ethernet (400GbE) 40-km physical medium dependent (PMD) sublayer is numerically analyzed. It is shown through calculations of the Quality Factor that the gain modulation nonlinearity of the semiconductor optical pre-amplifier is the main phenomenon that degrades the system performance. Moreover, it is demonstrated that its impact becomes dependent on the channel-spacing of the WDM plan, provided that the chromatic dispersion of the fiber is enough to vary the bit-correlation level among channels at the pre-amplifier input. Despite the considerable channel count, the effect of carrier heating-induced four wave mixing (FWM) is found to be rather modest, while the impact of carrier density pulsation-induced FWM and fiber non-linear response resulted to be negligible. With respect to the analyzed phenomena, a wide channel plan, only limited by the gain bandwidth, should be preferred for the 400 GbE implementation, especially if a nanostructured, broad-bandwidth, SOA can be afforded.
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