Title :
Improvement of system performance in N x 40-Gb/s WDM transmission using alternate polarizations
Author :
A. Hodzic;B. Konrad;K. Petermann
Author_Institution :
Tech. Univ., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
We show that the alternate polarization of adjacent bits and channels in N/spl times/40-Gb/s wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) transmission system causes significant improvement of system performance through suppression of nonlinear effects. The suppression of nonlinear effects results in an improvement of the spectral efficiency in N/spl times/40-Gb/s WDM systems.
Keywords :
"System performance","Wavelength division multiplexing","Pulse modulation","Optical polarization","Optical fiber polarization","Signal generators","Optical pulse generation","Optical modulation","Phase modulation","Optical fiber communication"
Journal_Title :
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2002.805767
