111-Gb/s POLMUX-RZ-DQPSK transmission over 1140 km of SSMF with 10.7-Gb/s NRZ-OOK neighbours

Author

Alfiad, M.S. ; van den Borne, D. ; Wuth, T. ; Kuschnerov, M. ; Lankl, B. ; Weiske, C. ; de Man, E. ; Napoli, A. ; de Waardt, H.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2008

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate the transmission of 111-Gb/s POLMUX-RZ-DQPSK over an 1140 km EDFA-only link in the presence of 10times10.7-Gb/s OOK neighbours and show the impact of channel spacing on the cross-talk.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; channel spacing; differential phase shift keying; erbium; multiplexing; optical crosstalk; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; EDFA-link; NRZ-OOK; POLMUX-RZ-DQPSK transmission; SSMF; channel spacing; cross-talk; polarization multiplexing technique; return to zero-differential quadrature phase shift keying; zero-differential quadrature phase shift keying; Bandwidth; Optical crosstalk; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Polarization; Pulse modulation; Signal generators; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Brussels

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2227-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2228-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729163

Filename

4729163