Increasing the transmission capacity of coherence multiplexed communication systems by using differential detection

Author

Pendock, G.J. ; Sampson, D.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia

Volume

7

Issue

12

fYear

1995

Firstpage

1504

Lastpage

1506

Abstract

We experimentally verify the impact of optical beat noise on a coherence-multiplexed optical communication system. We then show that optical beat noise can be significantly reduced, and transmission capacity increased, by using differential detection. We demonstrate transmission at low bit error rate of four coherence multiplexed channels, each having a capacity of 1 Gb/s, over 8 km of dispersion-shifted fiber. This is the highest capacity demonstration to date for any code-division multiplexing scheme.

Keywords

demodulation; multiplexing; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical noise; 1 Gbit/s; 8 km; code-division multiplexing scheme; coherence multiplexed channels; coherence multiplexed communication systems; coherence-multiplexed optical communication system; differential detection; dispersion-shifted fiber; low bit error rate; optical beat noise; transmission capacity; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Code division multiplexing; Decoding; Error analysis; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber communication; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical receivers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.477296

Filename

477296