Coherent Equalization versus Direct Detection for 111-Gb/s Ethernet Transport

Author

van den Borne, D. ; Duthel, T. ; Fludger, C.R.S. ; Schmidt, E.D. ; Wuth, T. ; Schulien, C. ; Gottwald, E. ; Khoe, G.D. ; de Waardt, H.

Author_Institution

Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven

fYear

2007

fDate

23-25 July 2007

Firstpage

11

Lastpage

12

Abstract

We discuss coherent equalization to realize robust 111-Gb/s transmission. For 111-Gb/s POLMUX-RZ-DQPSK we experimentally show the advantage of coherent equalization over direction detection for compensation of both chromatic dispersion and differential group delay.

Keywords

compensation; differential phase shift keying; equalisers; multiplexing; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; telecommunication traffic; Ethernet transport; POLMUX-RZ-DQPSK modulation; bit rate 111 Gbit/s; chromatic dispersion compensation; coherent equalization; differential group delay; direct detection; polarization-multiplexed transmission; Delay; Electronic mail; Ethernet networks; Finite impulse response filter; Optical fiber polarization; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Robustness; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, 2007 Digest of the

Conference_Location

Portland, OR

ISSN

1099-4742

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0926-8

Electronic_ISBN

1099-4742

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.2007.4288306

Filename

4288306