Title :
Effect of clipping on the performance of Nyquist-shaped dispersion-precompensated subcarrier modulation transmission with direct detection
Author :
Erkilinc, M.S. ; Pachnicke, Stephan ; Griesser, Helmut ; Bayvel, Polina ; Thomsen, Benn C. ; Killey, Robert I.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
We investigate the effect of signal waveform symmetric clipping on the performance of dispersion-precompensated subcarrier modulated Nyquist-QPSK in uncompensated direct detection links. OSNR gains of 0.7 dB and 1.2 dB are achieved over 400 and 800 km of SSMF, respectively.
Keywords :
quadrature phase shift keying; Nyquist-shaped dispersion-precompensated subcarrier modulation transmission; OSNR; SSMF; clipping effect; dispersion-precompensated subcarrier modulated Nyquist-QPSK; distance 400 km; distance 800 km; gain 0.7 dB; gain 1.2 dB; signal waveform symmetric clipping; uncompensated direct detection links; Optical fiber communication; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical transmitters; Peak to average power ratio; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6963846
