Experimental characterization of Gaussian-distributed nonlinear distortions

We show that in dispersion-uncompensated 100G systems Kerr nonlinearity is akin to additive Gaussian noise. Its variance grows as a power of propagation distance, and represents 1/3 of total noise variance at optimal channel power.

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