Title :
Experimental Investigation of System Impairments in Polarization Multiplexed 107-Gb/s RZ-DQPSK
Author :
Chandrasekhar, S. ; Liu, Xindong
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Several types of impairments manifested in polarization-multiplexed 107-Gb/s RZ- DQPSK are experimentally investigated. Comparisons are made between symbol-interleaved and symbol-aligned generation for impairments under tight optical filtering, PDL/PDG, PMD and fiber nonlinearities.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre filters; optical fibre polarisation; quadrature phase shift keying; telecommunication switching; fiber nonlinearities; polarization-multiplexed RZ-DQPSK; return-to-zero differential phase shift keyed transmission; symbol-aligned generation; symbol-interleaved generation; system impairments; tight optical filtering; Delay; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Page description languages;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528546
