• DocumentCode
    1103403
  • Title

    Characterisation of nonlinearity performance for coherent optical OFDM signals under influence of PMD

  • Author

    Ma, Y. ; Shieh, W. ; Yi, X.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne
  • Volume
    43
  • Issue
    17
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    943
  • Lastpage
    945
  • Abstract
    The first experiment of polarisation-mode dispersion (PMD) impact on fibre nonlinearity in coherent optical OFDM (CO-OFDM) systems is reported. The optimal Q value at 10.7 Gbit/s has been improved by 1 dB after introduction of differential group delay (DGD) of 900 ps.
  • Keywords
    OFDM modulation; signal processing; coherent optical OFDM systems; differential group delay; nonlinearity performance; polarisation-mode dispersion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20071701
  • Filename
    4293110