Repeaterless 10.7-Gb/s DPSK Transmission Over 304 km of SSMF Using a Coherent Receiver and Electronic Dispersion Compensation

Author

Wree, Christoph ; Bhandare, Suhas ; Becker, Donald ; Mohr, Daniel ; Joshi, Abhay

Author_Institution

Discovery Semicond., Ewing

Volume

20

Issue

6

fYear

2008

fDate

3/15/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

407

Lastpage

409

Abstract

Record repeaterless transmission of differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) at 10.7 Gb/s over 304 km of standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) is demonstrated using a coherent optical receiver and electronic dispersion compensation. This is the longest repeaterless 10-Gb/s transmission over SSMF in the absence of Raman amplifiers. The high receiver sensitivity and the high tolerance to nonlinearities of DPSK allow us to overcome a total link loss of 58 dB with a 3-dB system margin. Coherent detection enables linear electrical dispersion compensation and avoids the use of optical dispersion compensation.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; light coherence; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical receivers; DPSK transmission; bit rate 10.7 Gbit/s; coherent detection; coherent receiver; differential phase-shift keying; distance 304 km; electronic dispersion compensation; link loss; loss 58 dB; nonlinearity tolerance; optical dispersion compensation; optical receiver; receiver sensitivity; repeaterless transmission; standard single-mode fiber; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Optical receivers; Repeaters; Stimulated emission; Coherent detection; differential phase-shift keying (DPSK); electronic dispersion compensation; repeaterless;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2008.916922

Filename

4455669