Title :
Direct Detection of 107-Gb/s Polarization-Multiplexed DQPSK with Electronic Polarization Demultiplexing
Author :
Xiang Liu ; Chandrasekhar, S.
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a direct detection scheme for a 107-Gb/s polarization-multiplexed return-to-zero DQPSK signal, featuring automatic polarization demultiplexing in the electronic domain without polarization tracking. The required OSNR for BER = 10-3 was measured to be ~21 dB.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; error statistics; multiplexing; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; BER; OSNR; automatic polarization demultiplexing; bit rate 107 Gbit/s; direct detection scheme; polarization multiplexing; return-to-zero DQPSK signal; Demultiplexing; Polarization;
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.2008.4528603
