Title :
The performance of polarization switched-QPSK (PS-QPSK) in dispersion managed WDM transmissions
Author :
Serena, P. ; Vannucci, A. ; Bononi, A.
Author_Institution :
Dip. Ing. dell´´Inf., Univ. degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy
Abstract :
We investigate for the first time the performance of PS-QPSK in WDM nonlinear propagation. We show that the theoretical performance improvement of PS-QPSK compared to PDM-QPSK is even larger in nonlinear propagation.
Keywords :
optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical switches; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM nonlinear propagation; WDM transmission; dispersion; polarization switched-QPSK; Bandwidth; Gain; Kerr effect; Optical transmitters; Phase shift keying; Viterbi algorithm; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621247
