A 10.7-Gb/s DPSK Receiver with 4000-ps/nm Dispersion Tolerance using a Shortened MZDI and 4-state MLSE

Author

Alfiad, M.S. ; van den Borne, Dirk ; Napoli, Antonio ; Hauske, F.N. ; Koonen, A.M.J. ; de Waardt, H.

Author_Institution

COBRA Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a 10.7-Gb/s NRZ-DPSK receiver with 4000-ps/nm chromatic dispersion tolerance by using phase demodulation with a half-bit delay in combination with a simple 4-state maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) equalizer.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; demodulation; differential phase shift keying; equalisers; maximum likelihood sequence estimation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical receivers; phase modulation; 4-state MLSE equalizer; DPSK receiver; NRZ-DPSK receiver; bit rate 10.7 Gbit/s; chromatic dispersion tolerance; differential phase shift keying; half-bit delay; maximum likelihood sequence estimation; phase demodulation; shortened MZDI; shortened Mach-Zehnder delay interferometer; Delay; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Maximum likelihood estimation; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-856-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2008.4528775

Filename

4528775