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Title
Apparatus and Method for Retrieving Data from a WDM Signal, Transmitter and Method for Transmitting a WDM Signal, and WDM System
Date Issued
2014
Author(s)
Patent No
EP70774
Abstract
An apparatus for retrieving data from an optical wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) signal received via a WDM path in a wavelength-division multiplexing transmission system having a plurality of channels associated with different wavelengths, comprises a demultiplexer configured to split the optical WDM signal into a plurality of signals each associated with one of the channels. A calculator configured to calculate data associated with a respective one of the channels based on the signal associated with the respective channel and taking information on determined crosstalk interferences of other channels to the respective channel into consideration. A transmitter for transmitting an optical WDM signal via a WDM path in a WDM transmission system having a plurality of channels associated with different wavelengths, comprises a predistorter configured to predistort data associated with a respective one of the channels by information on determined crosstalk interferences of other channels to the respective channel and a signal source for each channel of the WDM transmission system configured to convert the data associated with the respective channel into an optical signal having a carrier frequency corresponding to the wavelength of the respective channel and to transmit the optical signal through the WDM path.
Language
en
Patenprio
WO EP70774 : 20121019