Title : 
Pulse design trade-offs for spectrum-efficient PDM-WDM coherent optical transmission systems
         
        
            Author : 
Ghazisaeidi, Amirhossein ; Fickers, Jessica ; Charlet, G.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Centre de Villarceaux, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs., Nozay, France
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We study the joint effect of pulse spectral rolloff and impulse-response truncation length on the performance of densely packed root-raised-cosine pulse-shaped 32.5 GBaud PDM-QPSK and 16QAM, through extensive bit-error-rate and spectrum measurements.
         
        
            Keywords : 
error statistics; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; transient response; wavelength division multiplexing; 16QAM; BER; coherent optical transmission systems; densely packed root-raised-cosine pulse-shaped QPSK; extensive bit-error-rate; fiber-optic polarization division multiplexing; impulse-response truncation length; pulse design trade-offs; pulse spectral roll; spectrum measurements; spectrum-efficient PDM-WDM; wavelength division multiplexing; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber filters; Phase shift keying;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Francisco, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-5575-2994-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1364/OFC.2014.M3A.1