Title :
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
fDate :
3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2004.824552
