• DocumentCode
    1584702
  • Title

    Bit-error rate performance of Nyquist wavelength-division multiplexed quadrature phase-shift keying optical signals

  • Author

    Igarashi, Koji ; Mori, Yojiro ; Katoh, Kazuhiro ; Kikuchi, Kazuro

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Inf. Syst., Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We measure bit-error rates of polarization-multiplexed Nyquist-WDM QPSK signals, which have rectangular spectral shapes and channel spacing equal to the symbol rate. The spectral efficiency of 4 bit/s/Hz is achieved with negligible power penalty.
  • Keywords
    channel spacing; error statistics; multiplexing; optical communication; quadrature phase shift keying; Nyquist wavelength division multiplexing; bit error rate; channel spacing; negligible power penalty; quadrature phase-shift keying optical signals; rectangular spectral shapes; symbol rate; Filtering; Optical attenuators; Optical crosstalk; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Phase shift keying; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0213-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5875335