Title :
Experimental and numerical investigation of the effect of second order PMD on the differential PSK
Author :
Ajgaonkar, M.U. ; Wuth, T. ; Wree, C. ; Xia, C. ; Rosenkranz, W.
Author_Institution :
Kiel Univ., Germany
Abstract :
We investigate the effects of second order PMD in differential PSK modulation employing RZ and NRZ signaling formats at 10 Gb/s to prove that NRZ DPSK is more robust than RZ DPSK towards second order PMD.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; 10 Gbit/s; NRZ DPSK; RZ DPSK; differential PSK modulation; second order PMD; signaling formats;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-772-5
