• DocumentCode
    2991688
  • Title

    Comparison of Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation equalizer performance with OOK and DPSK at 10.7 Gb/s

  • Author

    Polo, Iveth Lucia Lobato ; van den Borne, Dirk ; Gottwald, Erich ; De Waardt, Huug ; Brinkmeyer, Ernst

  • Author_Institution
    Optical Communication Technology, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, e-mail: Iveth.Lobato@tu-harburg.de
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    24-28 Sept. 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We experimentally compare MLSE equalization with OOK and DPSK in the presence of chromatic- and polarization-mode dispersion. We show that the 3-dB OSNR advantage of DPSK is lost in the presence of chromatic dispersion but maintained with polarization-mode dispersion.
  • Keywords
    Bit error rate; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Equalizers; Maximum likelihood estimation; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801183
  • Filename
    4801183