Title : 
Power Penalty in Multibit Differential Phase Shift Keying Demodulation
         
        
            Author : 
Lize, Yannick Keith ; Christen, Louis ; Nuccio, Scott ; Saghari, Poorya ; Gomma, Robert ; Yang, Jeng-Yuan ; Willner, Alan E. ; Kashyap, Raman ; Paraschis, Loukas
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
University of Southern California, Optical Communications Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Advanced Photonic Concepts Laboratory, lize@usc.edu
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We demonstrate the power penalty associated with multi-bit delay DPSK demodulation. We observed a spectral filtering induced for multi-bit while frequency offset tolerance scales as 1/bit-delay and the delay-mismatch tolerance decreases by 20%.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Delay effects; Demodulation; Differential phase shift keying; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Frequency; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical receivers;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Cannes, France
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-2-912328-39-7
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-2-912328-39-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801063