Title :
A comparison of different options to improve PDM-QPSK resilience against cross-channel nonlinearities
Author :
Sperti, Donato ; Serena, Paolo ; Bononi, Alberto
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Ing. dell´´Inf., Univ. degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy
Abstract :
Q-factor improvements induced by channel walk-off coming from either chromatic dispersion, or PMD, or in-line XPM suppressors are compared in 112 Gb/s PDM-QPSK WDM transmissions with NRZ, aligned-RZ and interleaved-RZ pulses.
Keywords :
Q-factor; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; NRZ pulses; PDM-QPSK WDM transmissions; PDM-QPSK resilience; Q-factor improvements; aligned-RZ pulses; channel walk-off; chromatic dispersion; cross-channel nonlinearities; in-line XPM suppressors; interleaved-RZ pulses; Delay; Delta modulation; Dispersion; Optical signal processing; Phase shift keying; Wavelength division multiplexing;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621530
