Improved Nx40 Gb/s NRZ based WDM transmission performance with polarization switching

Author

Hodzic, Anes ; Konrad, Beate ; Randel, Sebastian ; Petermann, Klaus

Author_Institution

Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

119

Abstract

In this paper we show that the alternate polarization of adjacent bits in N×40 Gb/s NRZ based transmission system over SSMF fiber can significantly improve the transmission performance and spectral efficiency through suppression of nonlinear effects in the fiber. This new modulation method shows even better nonlinear features than conventional RZ modulation and enables a spectral efficiency of 0.8 bit/s/Hz.

Keywords

nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical receivers; wavelength division multiplexing; 40 Gbit/s; Gb/s NRZ based WDM transmission performance; RZ modulation; SSMF fiber; adjacent bits; alternate polarization; modulation method; nonlinear effects suppression; nonlinear features; polarization switching; spectral efficiency; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Phase modulation; Pulse modulation; Signal generators; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7500-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2002.1133947

Filename

1133947