• DocumentCode
    1818046
  • Title

    System degradation by the SPM-induced mean nonlinear phase shift in optical QAM transmission

  • Author

    Seimetz, Matthias

  • Author_Institution
    Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommun., Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Berlin
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Optical QAM transmission inherently suffers from performance degradation caused by different mean nonlinear phase shifts experienced by symbols with different power levels. This paper illustrates this effect and shows possible compensation schemes and their efficiency.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre communication; quadrature amplitude modulation; self-phase modulation; SPM-induced mean nonlinear phase shift; optical QAM transmission; performance degradation; quadrature amplitude modulation; self-phase modulation; Degradation; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Quadrature amplitude modulation; (060.1660) Coherent communications; (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (060.4080) Modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2606-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-865-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5032387