A Theoretical Comparison of Robustness in Combating CD and PMD in Fiber-Optic Systems

Author

Secondini, Marco ; Forestieri, Enrico ; Prati, Giancarlo

Author_Institution

Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa

Volume

19

Issue

17

fYear

2007

Firstpage

1283

Lastpage

1285

Abstract

We provide a theoretical comparison, in terms of system outage probability, of the effectiveness of several different approaches to counteract chromatic dispersion and polarization-mode dispersion in fiber-optic systems. After shortly recalling the approach to performance evaluation, performances for various modulation formats, line coding, receiver electronic processing techniques including maximum likelihood sequence detection, and optical equalizers with various taps are superimposed and discussed.

Keywords

equalisers; maximum likelihood detection; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; CD; PMD; chromatic dispersion; fiber-optic systems; line coding; maximum likelihood sequence detection; modulation formats; optical equalizers; performance evaluation; polarization-mode dispersion; receiver electronic processing techniques; robustness; Chromatic dispersion; Equalizers; Maximum likelihood detection; Optical detectors; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Performance evaluation; Polarization mode dispersion; Robustness; Communication system performance; maximum likelihood detection; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD); s;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.902170

Filename

4285691