Title :
Performance limits of electronic feed-forward and decision feedback equalizers for single mode fibre links
Author :
Watts, P.M. ; Mikhailov, V. ; Savory, S. ; Bayvel, P. ; Glick, M. ; Lobel, M. ; Christensen, B. ; Kirkpatrick, P. ; Shang, S. ; Killey, R.I.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, UK
Abstract :
The performance limits of 10 Gb/s optically amplified single mode fibre links using electronic FFE and DFE are experimentally and numerically investigated. The optimum configuration and maximum single span transmission distance are determined.
Keywords :
decision feedback equalisers; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre networks; decision feedback equalizers; electronic feed-forward equalizers; metropolitan networks; optically amplified fiber links; single mode fibre links; single span transmission distance;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
