Investigation of optimal dispersion management for terrestrial 40Gbit/s RZ-DQPSK transmission systems

Author

Nijhof, J.H.B. ; Forysiak, W.

Author_Institution

Marconi, Coventry

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We investigate optimal dispersion maps for 40 Gbit/s DWDM systems based on return-to-zero differential phase-shift-keying modulated channels. Accumulating the dispersion compensation in 150 km G.652 units leads to a small transmission penalty of less than 0.5 dB.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM system; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; differential phase-shift-keying modulated channel; distance 150 km; optimal dispersion management; return-to-zero transmission; terrestrial RZ-DQPSK transmission system; Fiber nonlinear optics; Fiber optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical modulation; Phase modulation; Phase noise; Phase shift keying; Robustness; Transceivers; Wavelength division multiplexing; (060.2330) Fibre optics communications; (060.4510) Optical communications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627971

Filename

4627971