Effect of guard band on the performance of AP-DCDM technique in 40 Gb/s optical fiber communication system

Author

Malekmohammadi, A. ; Abdullah, M.K. ; Abas, A.F. ; Mahdiraji, G.A.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Electron. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Nottingham, Semenyih, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

5-7 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The effect of guard band (GB) on the performance of 40 Gb/s Absolute Polar Duty Cycle Division Multiplexing (AP-DCDM) is investigated and reported. It is demonstrated that the spectral width occupied by 40 Gb/s AP-DCDM with GB is 100 GHz (with minimum spectral efficiency of 0.4 b/s/Hz) whereas, this value can be reduced to around 80 GHz for AP-DCDM without GB (with minimum spectral efficiency of 0.5 b/s/Hz). In addition to better spectral efficiency, this amount of saving in the spectral width leads to ~ 60 ps/nm improvement in chromatic dispersion tolerance.

Keywords

multiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; spectral analysis; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM system; absolute polar duty cycle division multiplexing; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; chromatic dispersion; guard band; multiplexers; optical fiber communication system; optical fiber network capacity; spectral efficiency; spectral width; High speed optical techniques; Integrated optics; Multiplexing; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Absolute Polar Duty Cycle Division Multiplexing; Guard Band; Multiplexing; Optical Communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics (ICP), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Langkawi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7186-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICP.2010.5604402

Filename

5604402