Title :
Comparison of Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation equalizer performance with OOK and DPSK at 10.7 Gb/s
Author :
Polo, Iveth Lucia Lobato ; van den Borne, Dirk ; Gottwald, Erich ; De Waardt, Huug ; Brinkmeyer, Ernst
Author_Institution :
Optical Communication Technology, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, e-mail: Iveth.Lobato@tu-harburg.de
Abstract :
We experimentally compare MLSE equalization with OOK and DPSK in the presence of chromatic- and polarization-mode dispersion. We show that the 3-dB OSNR advantage of DPSK is lost in the presence of chromatic dispersion but maintained with polarization-mode dispersion.
Keywords :
Bit error rate; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Equalizers; Maximum likelihood estimation; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes, France
Print_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801183
