Title :
Real-time detection of a 40 Gbps intradyne channel in the presence of multiple received WDM channels
Author :
Nelson, L.E. ; Woodward, S.L. ; Magill, P.D. ; Foo, S. ; Moyer, M. ; O´Sullivan, M.
Author_Institution :
AT&T Labs. - Res., Middletown, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We characterize a single-ended intradyne receiver´s performance when multiple channels are received without optical demultiplexing. A 40Gb/s dual-polarization QPSK channel is recovered from 16 interfering channels with less than 2dB OSNR penalty at 1Ã10-3 BER.
Keywords :
error statistics; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; dual-polarization QPSK channel; intradyne channel; multiple received WDM channels; optical demultiplexing; real-time detection; single-ended intradyne receiver performance; Interference; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Transponders; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1