• DocumentCode
    2844778
  • Title

    The performance of polarization switched-QPSK (PS-QPSK) in dispersion managed WDM transmissions

  • Author

    Serena, P. ; Vannucci, A. ; Bononi, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dip. Ing. dell´´Inf., Univ. degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We investigate for the first time the performance of PS-QPSK in WDM nonlinear propagation. We show that the theoretical performance improvement of PS-QPSK compared to PDM-QPSK is even larger in nonlinear propagation.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical switches; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM nonlinear propagation; WDM transmission; dispersion; polarization switched-QPSK; Bandwidth; Gain; Kerr effect; Optical transmitters; Phase shift keying; Viterbi algorithm; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621247
  • Filename
    5621247