Nyquist-WDM-based system performance evaluation

Author

Killey, Robert I. ; Sezer Erkilinc, M. ; Maher, Robert ; Paskov, Milen ; Kilmurray, Sean ; Bouziane, Rachid ; Thomsen, Benn C. ; Savory, Seb J. ; Bayvel, Polina

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, London, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

23-27 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We describe an experimental evaluation of a Nyquist-WDM-based transmission system. Nine 10.7 GHz-spaced WDM channels were generated, carrying polarisation-division-multiplexed QPSK with digital Nyquist pulse shaping at 10 Gbaud. Back-to-back characterisation and long-haul transmission tests using a recirculating fibre loop are described, and a comparison of experimental performance with that predicted by theory, based on the Gaussian-noise model of nonlinear propagation, is carried out.

Keywords

Gaussian noise; optical fibre networks; optical pulse shaping; quadrature phase shift keying; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; Gaussian-noise model; Nyquist-WDM-based system performance evaluation; WDM channel; back-to-back characterisation; digital Nyquist pulse shaping; long-haul transmission test; nonlinear propagation; polarisation-division-multiplexed QPSK; recirculating fibre loop; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Noise; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical transmitters; Wavelength division multiplexing; Nyquist WDM; fibre nonlinearity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2013 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cartagena

ISSN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2013.6603006

Filename

6603006