Title : 
53.5 GHz monolithically integrated pulse source for 107 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK transmission
         
        
            Author : 
Schubert, C. ; Ludwig, R. ; Huettl, B. ; Kaiser, R. ; Hu, H. ; Steffan, A. ; Schmidt-Langhorst, C.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommun., Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Berlin
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We present a 53.5 GHz monolithic pulse source, applied as transmitter in a single-channel, 107 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK system with 100 GHz filtering. Error-free transmission over 480 km was demonstrated.
         
        
            Keywords : 
differential phase shift keying; optical pulse generation; quadrature phase shift keying; Ethernet; RZ-DQPSK transmission; bit rate 107 Gbit/s; distance 480 km; frequency 100 GHz; frequency 53.5 GHz; monolithically integrated pulse source; return-to-zero differential quadrature phase shift keying; Filtering; Modulation; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters;
         
        
        
        
            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
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729217