Analysis of fiber dispersion effects on phase modulated signals using constellation diagram

Author

Arbab, Vahid R. ; Wu, Xiaoxia ; Christen, Louis C. ; Yang, Jeng-Yuan ; Dennis, Tasshi ; Williams, Paul ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Effects of CD and first order PMD on the shape of the constellation diagrams of DQPSK systems are presented, and by quantifying variations in the constellation diagrams, a figure of merit is obtained which can be used for computing the amount of dispersion.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; phase modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; DQPSK system; PMD; constellation diagram; fiber dispersion effect; optical fibre communication; phase modulated signal; polarization-mode-dispersion; quadrature phase shift keying; Chromatic dispersion; Constellation diagram; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Phase modulation; Phase shift keying; Shape; Signal analysis; 060.2360 Fiber optics links and subsystems; 060.5060 Phase modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2606-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-865-0

Type

conf

Filename

5032311