Cross phase modulation penalties in polarization-multiplexed RZ-DQPSK transmission

Author

Siano, Rocco ; Marazzi, Lucia ; Boffi, Pierpaolo ; Martelli, Paolo ; Parolari, Paola ; Righetti, Aldo ; Martinelli, Mario

Author_Institution

CoreCom, Milano

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

XPM impairment on PolDM RZ-DQPSK transmission is experimentally investigated over 50 km uncompensated SMF fiber. Measured propagation penalties due to a 50 or 100 GHz spaced RZ-shaped channel at different power and state of polarization are discussed.

Keywords

channel spacing; differential phase shift keying; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; optical modulation; phase modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; PolDM; RZ-shaped channel; SMF fiber; cross phase modulation penalties; distance 50 km; frequency 100 GHz; frequency 50 GHz; nonlinearity effect; polarization-multiplexed RZ-DQPSK transmission; propagation penalty measurement; state-of-polarization; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical scattering; Phase modulation; Power measurement; Wavelength division multiplexing; (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers;

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.2006.4628066

Filename

4628066