Single- and cross-channel nonlinear interference in the Gaussian Noise model with rectangular spectra

Opt Express. 2013 Dec 30;21(26):32254-68. doi: 10.1364/OE.21.032254.

Abstract

New semi-analytic formulas of the power spectral density (PSD) of single- and cross-channel nonlinear interference (NLI) in coherent optical links for which the Gaussian Noise (GN) model applies are presented. From the PSD, a new bound on cross-channel NLI power is obtained. The new formulas are useful to both quickly compute single- and cross-channel NLI power, and to test the accuracy of numerical routines that directly solve the double frequency integral in the GN reference formula.