Title : 
Bi-directional DPSK Transmission Over 230-km SSMF Employing Innovative Bi-directional Amplification
         
        
            Author : 
Huang, Ming-Fang ; Yu, Jianjun ; Chang, Gee-Kung ; Chen, Jason Jyehong ; Chi, Sien
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A novel bi-directional DPSK transmission system with 50-GHz channel spacing is experimentally demonstrated using a four-port interleaver to enable uni-directional amplification. After 230-km SSMF, RZ-DPSK transmission improved power penalty by 2-dB than NRZ-DPSK at 10-Gb/s.
         
        
            Keywords : 
differential phase shift keying; optical fibre communication; telecommunication network routing; bidirectional DPSK transmission system; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; channel spacing; differential phase-shift keying; distance 230 km; four-port interleaver; frequency 50 GHz; power penalty; standard single-mode fiber; unidirectional amplification; Bidirectional control; Channel spacing; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical receivers; Phase modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Baltimore, MD
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-55752-834-6
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452540