Title :
Local oscillator linewidth limitation on 16 QAM coherent optical transmission system
Author :
Gao, K. ; Wan, Junyi ; Yang, Lu ; He, Xuan ; Peterson, D. ; Pan, Z.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA
Abstract :
We studied the LO linewidth limitation for a 16-QAM WDM coherent system. The simulation shows that the linewidth should be less than 500 KHz for ≥ 100 Gb/s over 300 km dispersion managed fiber link.
Keywords :
Digital signal processing; Error analysis; Local oscillators; Optical fiber polarization; Optical mixing; Optical signal processing; Phase detection; Polarization mode dispersion; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2