Title :
Comparison of modulation formats for 42.7-gb/s single-channel transmission through 1980 km of SSMF
Author :
Gnauck, A.H. ; Liu, X. ; Wei, X. ; Gill, D.M. ; Burrows, E.C.
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Holmdel, NJ, USA
fDate :
3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We experimentally compare nonreturn-to-zero and return-to-zero on-off keying with a number of recently proposed modulation formats for 1980-km 42.7-Gb/s single-channel transmission over standard single-mode fiber. Substantial performance improvements are obtained with the new formats.
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; differential phase shift keying; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; telecommunication channels; 1980 km; 42.7 Gbit/s; SSMF; modulation formats; nonreturn-to-zero on-off keying; return-to-zero on-off keying; single-channel transmission; standard single-mode fiber; Amplitude modulation; Chirp modulation; Distributed feedback devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Phase modulation; Pulse modulation;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2004.823688
