Title :
Fibre nonlinearities in WDM-systems with reduced channel-spacing and symbol-rate
Author :
Behrens, C. ; Killey, R.I. ; Savory, S.J. ; Chen, M. ; Bayvel, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
We investigate the dependence of nonlinear penalty on symbol-rate in polarisation-multiplexed coherent DQPSK WDM-transmission systems over an uncompensated SSMF link with a fixed spectral efficiency of 2 bit/s/Hz. The performance is found to be similar, irrespective of the symbol-rate.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM systems; fibre nonlinearities; fixed spectral efficiency; nonlinear penalty; polarisation-multiplexed coherent DQPSK WDM-transmission systems; reduced channel spacing; symbol rate; uncompensated SSMF link; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Channel spacing; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical filters; 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.2010.5621552
