Title :
Experimental comparison of 40 Gb/s RZ-, CSRZ-, and NRZ-DPSK modulation formats over non slope-matched fibers
Author :
Cai, J.-X. ; Nissov, M. ; Li, H. ; Davidson, C.R. ; Anderson, W. ; Liu, L. ; Foursa, D. ; Pilipetskii, A.N. ; Bergano, Neal S.
Author_Institution :
Tyco Telecommun., Eatontown, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Various DPSK modulation formats were experimentally compared at 40 Gb/s using non slope-matched fiber spans. All formats benefited from dispersion slope compensation. For co-polarized channels on 100 GHz spacing CSRZ-DPSK worked best.
Keywords :
channel spacing; differential phase shift keying; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; 100 GHz; 40 Gbit/s; copolarized channels; dispersion slope compensation; modulation format; nonslope-matched fiber spans; spacing CSRZ-DPSK worked best;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
