Title :
Experimental Comparison of PMD Tolerances of Binary 43Gb/s Modulation Formats without and with PMD Compensation
Author :
Klekamp, A. ; Bülow, H.
Author_Institution :
Alcatel Research and Innovation, Alcatel SEL AG, Lorenzstr. 10, 70435 Stuttgart, Axel.Klekamp@alcatel.de
Abstract :
We compared experimentally PMD tolerance on 43Gb/s ASK/DPSK NRZ/RZ formats taking into account first and second order PMD. At 10-5 outage NRZ and RZ33 exhibit 2.8 and 4ps tolerance, respectively, showing negligible differences between ASK and DPSK.
Keywords :
Amplitude shift keying; Attenuation measurement; Bit error rate; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Modulation; Optical feedback; Optical noise; Optical signal processing; Performance evaluation; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes, France
Print_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801102
