Title :
Impact of pulse shapes on the performance of PDM-QPSK coherent transmission systems
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
The impact of pulse shapes on the performance of PDM-QPSK coherent transmission systems is discussed. We show that time-interleaved RZ can significantly increase the tolerance of PDM-QPSK coherent systems to fiber nonlinearities and tight filtering.
Keywords :
multiplexing; quadrature phase shift keying; PDM-QPSK coherent transmission systems; fiber nonlinearities; pulse shapes; tight filtering; time-interleaved RZ; Optical fiber filters; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2011 16th
Conference_Location :
Kaohsiung
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-288-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-986-02-8974-9
