WDM Performance and PMD Tolerance of a Coherent 40-Gbit/s Dual-Polarization QPSK Transceiver

Author

Laperle, Charles ; Villeneuve, Bernard ; Zhang, Zhuhong ; McGhan, Doug ; Sun, Han ; O´Sullivan, Maurice

Author_Institution

Nortel, Ottawa

Volume

26

Issue

1

fYear

2008

Firstpage

168

Lastpage

175

Abstract

We report the measured wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) performance and polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) tolerance of a coherent 40-Gbit/s dual-polarization quadrature phase shift keying (DP-QPSK) transceiver at 50-GHz minimum channel spacing in a 40-channel 40-span test bed comprised of 3200 km of uncompensated G.652 fiber. We also evaluate the impact of polarization-dependent loss (PDL) on system performance and present the measured tolerance to frequency misalignment between the transmitter and a multiplexer/demultiplexer filter pair.

Keywords

channel spacing; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; optical receivers; optical transmitters; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; G.652 fiber; PMD tolerance; WDM performance; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; channel spacing; coherent dual-polarization QPSK transceiver; distance 3200 km; frequency 50 GHz; frequency misalignment; multiplexer-demultiplexer filter; polarization-dependent loss; polarization-mode dispersion; quadrature phase shift keying; transmitter; wavelength-division-multiplexing; Channel spacing; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Phase measurement; Polarization mode dispersion; Propagation losses; Quadrature phase shift keying; Transceivers; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength measurement; Optical coherent transceiver; optical filter misalignment; polarization-dependent loss (PDL); polarization-mode dispersion (PMD); quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK); wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2007.913071

Filename

4451215