Title :
Improved detection of differential phase shift keying through multi-symbol phase estimation
Author :
Calabrò, S. ; van den Borne, D. ; Jansen, S.L. ; Khoe, G.D. ; de Waardt, H.
Author_Institution :
Siemens AG, Munich, Germany
Abstract :
We report an improved self-homodyne detection scheme for differential phase-shift-keying that achieves close to homodyne performance and effectively reduces the influence of nonlinear phase noise, resulting in a 1.3 dB sensitivity improvement over self-homodyne detection.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; homodyne detection; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; phase estimation; phase noise; differential phase shift keying; multisymbol phase estimation; nonlinear phase noise; self-homodyne detection;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
