• DocumentCode
    670735
  • 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
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    16-20 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Amsterdam
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6705971