Performance study of modulation formats for 10-Gb/s WDM metropolitan area networks

Author

Tzanakaki, A. ; Zacharopoulos, I. ; Parcharidou, D. ; Tomkos, I.

Author_Institution

Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks Group, Athens Inf. Technol. Center, Greece

Volume

16

Issue

7

fYear

2004

fDate

7/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1769

Lastpage

1771

Abstract

A detailed comparative study of various alternative modulation formats appropriate for wavelength-division-multiplexed metropolitan area networks is performed to evaluate their tolerance to linear impairments such as optical signal-to-noise ratio degradation, chromatic dispersion, crosstalk, and filter concatenation effects. Some of these formats are very tolerant to these impairments and exhibit superior performance compared to conventional nonreturn-to-zero.

Keywords

metropolitan area networks; optical crosstalk; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; chromatic dispersion; crosstalk; filter concatenation; metropolitan area networks; modulation formats; signal-to-noise ratio degradation; wavelength division multiplexing; Degradation; Metropolitan area networks; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Performance evaluation; Signal to noise ratio; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.828380

Filename

1308293