Title :
Performance comparison of singly-polarized and polarization-multiplexed at 10Gbaud under nonlinear impairments
Author :
Charlet, G. ; Renaudier, Jeremie ; Bertran Pardo, O. ; Tran, P. ; Mardoyan, H. ; Bigo, S.
Author_Institution :
Centre de Villarceaux, Alcatel-Lucent Res. & Innovation, Nozay, France
Abstract :
PDM-QPSK combined with coherent detection is seen as a promising modulation scheme for high bit-rate transmission (40 Gb/s and above). The impact of polarization-division multiplexing on the tolerance to nonlinearities is investigated here with 10 Gbaud signals.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; QPSK; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; nonlinear impairments; polarization division multiplexing; quadrature phase shift keying; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Quadrature phase shift keying; Signal to noise ratio; Testing; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528547
