Title :
Experimental Measurements of the Effectiveness of MLSE against Narrowband Optical Filtering Distortion
Author :
Downie, John D. ; Hurley, Jason ; Sauer, Michael ; Lobanov, Sergey ; Raghavan, Srikanth
Author_Institution :
Corning Inc., Corning, NY
Abstract :
We experimentally investigate the application of MLSE-EDC to signals transmitted through narrowband optical filters. We find MLSE affords significant OSNR improvement of ~5 dB for NRZ signals, but less or none for duobinary and DPSK.
Keywords :
maximum likelihood sequence estimation; optical fibre communication; optical filters; MLSE-EDC; experimental measurements; narrowband optical filtering distortion; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Distortion measurement; Filtering; Maximum likelihood estimation; Narrowband; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical signal processing; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2007. OFC/NFOEC 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-831-4
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2007.4348563
