Advanced Optical Modulation Formats

Author

Winzer, Peter J. ; Essiambre, René-Jean

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ

Volume

94

Issue

5

fYear

2006

fDate

5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

952

Lastpage

985

Abstract

Fiber-optic communication systems form the high-capacity transport infrastructure that enables global broadband data services and advanced Internet applications. The desire for higher per-fiber transport capacities and, at the same time, the drive for lower costs per end-to-end transmitted information bit has led to optically routed networks with high spectral efficiencies. Among other enabling technologies, advanced optical modulation formats have become key to the design of modern wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) fiber systems. In this paper, we review optical modulation formats in the broader context of optically routed WDM networks. We discuss the generation and detection of multigigabit/s intensity- and phase-modulated formats, and highlight their resilience to key impairments found in optical networking, such as optical amplifier noise, multipath interference, chromatic dispersion, polarization-mode dispersion, WDM crosstalk, concatenated optical filtering, and fiber nonlinearity

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optical modulation; phase modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM crosstalk; advanced Internet applications; broadband data services; chromatic dispersion; concatenated optical filtering; differential phase modulation; digital modulation; fiber nonlinearity; fiber-optic communication systems; high-capacity transport infrastructure; intensity modulation; intensity-modulated formats; multipath interference; optical amplifier noise; optical communication; optical modulation formats; optical networking; optically routed WDM networks; optically routed networks; per-fiber transport capacities; phase-modulated formats; polarization-mode dispersion; wavelength division multiplexed fiber systems; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing; Web and internet services; Differential phase modulation; digital modulation; intensity modulation; optical communication; optical networks; wavelength division multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPROC.2006.873438

Filename

1634536