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Edwin Jan Klein - Universiteit Twente

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3.2.4 Channel Crosstalk<br />

45<br />

Design<br />

An ideal optical telecom system provides a large bandwidth as well as a high filter<br />

rejection ratio. The high rejection ratio is required in order to keep the channel<br />

crosstalk as low as possible. The adjacent channel crosstalk (CT) is the measure by<br />

which an optical signal in one channel can interfere with a signal in an adjacent<br />

channel. This is illustrated in Figure 3.7. In which the vertical lines show the locations<br />

of different channels on, in this instance, the ITU grid [103].<br />

P Drop /P In (dB)<br />

0<br />

-2<br />

-4<br />

-6<br />

-8<br />

-10<br />

-12<br />

-14<br />

-16<br />

-18<br />

1547 1548 1549 1550 1551 1552 1553 1554<br />

Wavelength (nm)<br />

Figure 3.7. Definition of the adjacent channel crosstalk.<br />

The adjacent channel crosstalk is here defined as the relative power fraction of a<br />

signal that is present on a channel adjacent to the channel λc on which this signal is<br />

transmitted. Following the derivation given in Appendix B the crosstalk can be<br />

expressed in terms of the channel separation ∆λcs, the Finesse and the Free Spectral<br />

Range:<br />

CT<br />

≡<br />

P ( = + ∆ )<br />

2<br />

drop λ λc<br />

λcs<br />

⎛ sin ( π.<br />

∆λ<br />

/ FSR)<br />

⎞<br />

10. log(<br />

= −10log<br />

⎜<br />

⎜1+<br />

⎟<br />

2<br />

Pdrop<br />

( λ = λc<br />

)<br />

⎝ sin ( π / 2F<br />

) ⎠<br />

(3.5)<br />

Figures 3.8a and 3.8b respectively show the crosstalk of a single resonator at an ITU<br />

channel spacing of 50 GHz and 100 GHz (∆λcs≈0.8 nm) for a resonator with R=50 µm<br />

and ng=1.5 at λ0=1550 nm.<br />

These figures show that the crosstalk can potentially be a major problem when a<br />

micro-resonator is used as a filter in applications that use these channel spacings.<br />

Although very low crosstalk values of

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