• DocumentCode
    2159696
  • Title

    Penalties from in-band crosstalk for advanced optical modulation formats

  • Author

    Winzer, P.J. ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Konczykowska, A. ; Jorge, F. ; Dupuy, J.-Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-22 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We quantify, through simulations and experiments at 21.4 GBaud, the effect of in-band crosstalk on several advanced optical modulation formats, showing a 1-dB penalty at a bit-error ratio of 1×10-3 from a crosstalk of -18 dB, -24 dB, and -32 dB for QPSK, 16-QAM, and 64-QAM, respectively.
  • Keywords
    optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; 16-QAM; 16-quadrature amplitude modulation; 64-QAM; 64-quadrature amplitude modulation; QPSK; bit-error ratio; in-band crosstalk; optical modulation formats; Crosstalk; Optical attenuators; Optical crosstalk; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical polarization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Geneva
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1918-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6065992