Title :
PMD-induced nonlinear penalty reduction in coherent polarization-multiplexed QPSK transmission
Author :
Xia, Chunmin ; Pina, Jose Filipe da Silva ; Striegler, Arne ; van den Borne, Dirk
Author_Institution :
Nokia Siemens Networks, Munich, Germany
Abstract :
The PMD-induced reduction of the nonlinear transmission penalty is investigated for 40G CP-QPSK dispersion-managed systems. We show a significant dependence on the PMD coefficient for pure CP-QPSK transmission, but a strongly reduced impact in mixed scenarios with OOK/DPSK.
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; differential phase shift keying; polarisation; quadrature phase shift keying; 40G CP-QPSK dispersion-managed systems; OOK/DPSK; PMD coefficient; PMD-induced nonlinear penalty reduction; PMD-induced reduction; coherent polarization-multiplexed QPSK transmission; nonlinear transmission penalty; pure CP-QPSK transmission; Digital signal processing; Dispersion; Phase shift keying; Receivers; Synchronization; 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.2010.5621513
