Title :
Experimental comparison of optical phase conjugation and DCF aided DWDM 2×10.7 Gbit/s DQPSK transmission
Author :
Jansen, S.L. ; van den Borne, Dirk ; Krummrich, P.M. ; Khoe, G.D. ; de Waardt, H.
Author_Institution :
COBRA Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands
Abstract :
The performance of DWDM 2×10.7 Gbit/s-DQPSK is assessed comparing mid-link optical phase conjugation (OPC) and DCF for dispersion compensation. We report a 44%-increase in transmission distance resulting from nonlinear phase noise reduction by using mid-link OPC.
Keywords :
light transmission; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical phase conjugation; phase noise; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; 10.7 Gbit/s; 21.4 Gbit/s; DCF aided DWDM; DQPSK transmission; dispersion compensated fibre; mid-link optical phase conjugation; nonlinear phase noise reduction; transmission distance;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
