Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1988-08-01
1990-01-09
Safourek, Benedict V.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
455612, 455617, H04B 900
Patent
active
048933007
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a technique for suppressing intermodulation products introduced by nonlinearities of a laser in a multicarrier Freqeuncy Division Multiplexed (FDM) fiberoptic link. More particularly, for two or more closely spaced FDM channel information signals within a predetermined band of frequencies in an FDM optical transmission system, third-order intermodulation products, which are produced by nonlinearities of a transmitting laser, also fall in-band and provide interference in the channel information signals. Suppression of these in-band intermodulation products is achieved in the present invention by the simultaneous transmission of a strong suppression tone which is disposed outside the band of the FDM channel information signals being transmitted, and at a frequency within the overall response band of the transmitting laser such that the mixing of the channel information signals and the suppression tone will provide minimal, or no, intermodulation products in the frequency band of the FDM channel information signals.
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Carlin James W.
Chipaloski Anthony C.
Schloss Robert P.
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Beek Leslie Van
Pfeifle Erwin W.
Safourek Benedict V.
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