Impairments affecting the OSNR
In this article we will have a overview of the impairments affecting the Optical Signal to Noise ratio.
We can have the following impairments during the optical fiber communication :-
-PMD (polarization mode dispersion)----please refer previous articles
-PDL(Polarization depended losses )----please refer previous articles
-Cross talk induced impairment (induced due to four wave mixing and high reflections)
-Mux/Demux/WSS induced impairments (induced due to imperfect filter shapes)
-Non linearities
-SRS tilt (stimulated raman scattering tilt)--Please refer previous article