Title :
RZ-DQPSK Format with High Spectral Efficiency and High Robustness Towards Fiber Nonlinearities
Author :
Wree, Christoph ; Leibrich, Jochen ; Rosenkranz, Werner
Author_Institution :
Kiel Univ.
Abstract :
We propose a simple concept to implement a direct-detection DQPSK transmission to double the transmission rate. The robustness of RZ-DQPSK towards nonlinearities is investigated in a 8times80 Gb/s WDM-system over 400 km SSMF and compared to 8times40 Gb/s RZ-ASK
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; 2-DQPSK format; 400 km; 80 Gbit/s; RZ-DQPSK; WDM-system; direct-detection DQPSK transmission; fiber nonlinearities; sideband SMF; spectral efficiency;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN :
87-90974-63-8
