Title :
Nonlinear tolerance of ultra-densely spaced 100Gb/s coherent PDM-QPSK channels
Author :
Renaudier, J. ; Bertran-Pardo, O. ; Pierre, L. ; Tran, P. ; Mardoyan, H. ; Charlet, G. ; Bigo, S.
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Nozay, France
Abstract :
We investigate the impact of tight filtering and WDM crosstalk on the performance of 100Gb/s coherent PDM-QPSK over a terrestrial transmission link. We show that packing 100G PDM-QPSK channels into a 33GHz-grid yields moderate penalties compared to a standard 50GHz-grid.
Keywords :
crosstalk; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM crosstalk; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; coherent PDM-QPSK channel; frequency 33 GHz; nonlinear tolerance; terrestrial transmission link; tight filtering; Bandwidth; Channel spacing; Crosstalk; Filtering; Optical filters; Phase shift keying; 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.2010.5621411
