Title :
Performance of NRZ and duobinary modulation formats in Rayleigh and ASE-dominated dense optical links
Author :
Marki, C.F. ; Alic, N. ; Gross, M. ; Papen, G. ; Esener, S. ; Radic, S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
The performance of spectrally compressed optical modulation formats in the presence of Rayleigh and ASE-dominated noise are investigated and quantified. The results show that wider modulation formats outperform narrower bandwidth formats unless format-tailored filtering is used.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical modulation; superradiance; ASE-dominated noise; NRZ; Rayleigh; dense optical links; duobinary modulation formats; format-tailored filtering; spectrally compressed optical modulation formats; Bandwidth; Filtering; Optical fiber communication; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Passive optical networks;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215956
