Polarisation-mode dispersion impairments in direct-detection differential phase-shift-keying systems

Author

Kim, H. ; Doerr, C.R. ; Pafchek, R. ; Stulz, L.W. ; Bernasconi, P.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

38

Issue

18

fYear

2002

fDate

8/29/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1047

Lastpage

1048

Abstract

Evaluation of the system performance degraded by first-order polarisation-mode dispersion (PMD) for non-return-to-zero (NRZ) or return-to-zero (RZ) differential phase-shift-keying (DPSK) signals is presented. The PMD-induced power penalties were measured with a PMD emulator for an optically preamplified receiver. The results show that the PMD sensitivities of DPSK signals are comparable with on-off keying signals

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; differential phase shift keying; electro-optical modulation; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical receivers; LiNbO₃ phase modulator; MZ modulator; Mach-Zehnder delayed interferometer; NRZ DPSK signals; PMD emulator; PMD-induced power penalties; RZ DPSK signals; direct-detection differential phase-shift-keying systems; eye diagrams; first-order polarisation-mode dispersion; on-off keying signals; optically preamplified receiver; polarisation-mode dispersion impairments; system performance degradation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:20020601

Filename

1033264