Title :
Experimental study on impact of SOA nonlinear phase noise in 40Gbps coherent 16QAM transmissions
Author :
Kamitani, Naohide ; Yoshida, Yutaka ; Kitayama, Ken-ichi
Author_Institution :
Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan
Abstract :
The pattern effect in semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is experimentally investigated in 40Gbps coherent 16QAM transmissions. The pattern-dependent phase distortion reveals to strictly limit the operable range of SOA in ordinal coherent transceivers with linear equalizers.
Keywords :
equalisers; laser noise; light transmission; optical distortion; optical transceivers; phase noise; quadrature amplitude modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA nonlinear phase noise; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; coherent 16QAM transmissions; linear equalizers; ordinal coherent transceivers; pattern effect; pattern-dependent phase distortion; semiconductor optical amplifier; Fluctuations; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
