Title :
Dispersion and nonlinearity tolerance of modulation formats for 160 Gb/s systems
Author :
Xu, Zhenbo ; Peucheret, C. ; Siahlo, A.I. ; Rottwitt, K. ; Jeppesen, P.
Author_Institution :
Res. Center COM, Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract :
We compare the RZ-DQPSK modulation format in 160 Gb/s single channel systems with RZ, CSRZ, RZ-DPSK and CSRZ-DPSK for the first time. We find that RZ-DQPSK offers nearly three time better dispersion tolerance than CSRZ-DPSK.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; 160 Gbit/s; CSRZ-DPSK; RZ-DPSK; RZ-DQPSK modulation format; dispersion tolerance; nonlinearity tolerance; single channel systems;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
