Title :
Tolerance to nonlinearity of 40 Gb/s BPSK-based coherent solution over legacy systems based on non-zero dispersion-shifted fibers
Author :
Renaudier, J. ; Bertran-Pardo, O. ; Salsi, M. ; Vacondio, F. ; Mardoyan, H. ; Tran, P. ; Charlet, G. ; Bigo, S.
Author_Institution :
Centre de Villarceaux, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs., Nozay, France
Abstract :
We experimentally assess the performance of coherent PDM-BPSK at 40Gb/s over non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber. The BPSK-based solution is found about 7.5dB more robust than the QPSK-based solution against cross-nonlinearities induced by 10Gb/s neighbor channels.
Keywords :
optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; phase shift keying; BPSK-based coherent solution; PDM-BPSK; binary phase shift keying; legacy systems; nonzero dispersion-shifted fibers; Binary phase shift keying; Chromatic dispersion; Delay; Optical fibers; Optical signal processing; Robustness;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
