Suppression of intrachannel nonlinear effects with alternate-polarization formats

Author

Xie, Chongjin ; Kang, Inuk ; Gnauck, Alan H. ; Möller, Lothar ; Mollenauer, Linn F. ; Grant, Andrew R.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

22

Issue

3

fYear

2004

fDate

3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

806

Lastpage

812

Abstract

We investigate using alternate-polarization (APol) on-off keying formats, in which adjacent bits have orthogonal states of polarization, to suppress intrachannel nonlinear impairments in dispersion-managed (DM) optical fiber transmission systems. Simple methods to generate the APol formats are discussed, and the transmission performance of the APol formats for both 40-Gb/s DM systems and 10-Gb/s DM-soliton systems is experimentally studied. We show that the APol formats can significantly improve the performance of 40-Gb/s DM transmission systems, while the improvement of 10-Gb/s systems is smaller.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical solitons; 10 Gbit/s; 10-Gb/s dispersion-soliton systems; 40 Gbit/s; 40-Gb/s dispersion-managed systems; alternate-polarization formats; dispersion-managed optical fiber transmission systems; interchannel nonlinear effects suppression; intrachannel cross-phase modulation; intrachannel four-wave mixing; modulation formats; on-off keying formats; optical fibre communications; orthogonal polarization states; polarization alternation; Ambient intelligence; Delta modulation; Four-wave mixing; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Phase modulation; Polarization mode dispersion; Pulse modulation; Signal generators;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2004.824552

Filename

1281943