Title : 
Impact of narrow optical filtering on 200-Gbit/s DP-16-QAM long-haul optical transmission
         
        
            Author : 
Lobato, Adriana ; Kuschnerov, Maxim ; Diaz, Alberto ; Napoli, Antonio ; Spinnler, Bernhard ; Lankl, Berthold
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Fed. Armed Forces Univ. Munich, Neubiberg, Germany
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The effect of optical band-pass filtering on 200-Gbit/s DP-16-QAM systems is investigated for different pulse shapes, SSMF and LEAF. The results show the detrimental effect of optical filtering in the nonlinear tolerance for RZ50 and NRZ.
         
        
            Keywords : 
band-pass filters; light transmission; optical filters; optical pulse shaping; quadrature amplitude modulation; DP-16-QAM systems; LEAF; SSMF; bit rate 200 Gbit/s; long-haul optical transmission; narrow optical filtering; nonlinear tolerance; optical band-pass filtering; pulse shapes; Bandwidth; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical transmitters;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2011 IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Montreal, QC
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-5730-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/PHOSST.2011.6000082