Title :
Comparison of linear fiber impairments tolerance among 40 Gb/s modulation formats
Author :
An, F. ; Marhic, M. ; Kazovsky, L. ; Akasaka, Y. ; Harris, D. ; Huang, R.
Author_Institution :
Stanford Univ., CA, USA
Abstract :
We experimentally compare the robustness of 40Gb/s NRZ, NRZ-VSB, CSRZ, BL-CSRZ, RZ, and RZ-VSB formats in the presence of combined residual CD and 1st order PMD. The result shows that RZ-VSB has the best tolerance without adaptive CD/PMD compensation.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; 40 Gbit/s; NRZ modulation formats; NRZ-VSB modulation formats; RZ modulation formats; RZ-VSB modulation formats; bandlimited-carrier suppressed RZ modulation formats; carrier suppressed RZ modulation formats; linear fiber impairments tolerance; polarisation mode dispersion; Bars; Noise generators; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical scattering; Optical signal processing; Rayleigh scattering; Signal to noise ratio; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1248477
