• DocumentCode
    3528407
  • Title

    Direct Detection of 107-Gb/s Polarization-Multiplexed DQPSK with Electronic Polarization Demultiplexing

  • Author

    Xiang Liu ; Chandrasekhar, S.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    24-28 Feb. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a direct detection scheme for a 107-Gb/s polarization-multiplexed return-to-zero DQPSK signal, featuring automatic polarization demultiplexing in the electronic domain without polarization tracking. The required OSNR for BER = 10-3 was measured to be ~21 dB.
  • Keywords
    differential phase shift keying; error statistics; multiplexing; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; BER; OSNR; automatic polarization demultiplexing; bit rate 107 Gbit/s; direct detection scheme; polarization multiplexing; return-to-zero DQPSK signal; Demultiplexing; Polarization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-856-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2008.4528603
  • Filename
    4528603