Comparison of different modulation formats in terrestrial systems with high polarization mode dispersion

Author

Khosravani, R. ; Willner, A.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

7-10 March 2000

Firstpage

201

Abstract

We compare the performance of NRZ, RZ, dispersion-managed solitons, and pre-chirped RZ formats in the presence of high polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) for 10 Gbit/s terrestrial systems. Fiber nonlinearities and signal chirp interact with PMD-induced pulse distortion to generate clear trends in system power penalties. We show that chirped RZ pulses are more tolerant to high PMD values.

Keywords

chirp modulation; optical fiber communication; optical fiber dispersion; optical fiber polarization; optical modulation; optical solitons; telecommunication network management; 10 Gbit/s; Gbit/s terrestrial systems; PMD-induced pulse distortion; chirped RZ pulses; dispersion-managed soliton; fiber nonlinearities; high PMD; high PMD values; high polarization mode dispersion; modulation formats; polarisation mode dispersion; pre-chirped RZ formats; signal chirp; system power penalties; terrestrial systems; Chirp; Distortion; Modulation; Optical fiber polarization; Optical signal processing; Polarization mode dispersion; Power generation; Pulse generation; Signal generators; Solitons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2000

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-630-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2000.868284

Filename

868284