• DocumentCode
    2846627
  • Title

    Polarization-mode-dispersion impairments in 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK coherent systems

  • Author

    Xie, Chongjin

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We analyze PMD impairments in 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK coherent systems and quantify outage probabilities. We show that 1st-order PMD under-estimates PMD impairments, but modeling 2nd-order PMD as polarization-dependent chromatic dispersion significantly over-estimates PMD penalties.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; probability; quadrature phase shift keying; PDM-QPSK coherent systems; PMD impairments; PMD penalty; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; outage probability; polarization-dependent chromatic dispersion; polarization-mode-dispersion impairments; Bit error rate; Equalizers; Finite impulse response filter; Optical crosstalk; Optical noise; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621348
  • Filename
    5621348