Title :
Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Ultrahigh-Speed In-Phase RZ and CS-RZ OTDM Transmission
Author :
Hirooka, Toshihiko ; Osawa, Kou ; Okazaki, Masatada ; Nakazawa, Masataka ; Murai, Hitoshi
Author_Institution :
Res. Inst. of Electr. Commun., Tohoku Univ., Sendai
Abstract :
We report that stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) plays an important role in ultrahigh-speed bitwise phase-controlled optical time-division multiplexing transmissions such as in-phase and carrier-suppressed return-to-zero (RZ). We show that the optical power can easily exceed the SBS threshold for such high-speed coherent RZ signals. The SBS-induced performance limitation in a 160-Gb/s-520 km transmission is described in detail.
Keywords :
Brillouin spectra; phase control; time division multiplexing; carrier-suppressed return-to-zero; performance limitation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; ultrahigh-speed bitwise phase-controlled OTDM; ultrahigh-speed scattering; Carrier-suppressed return-to-zero (CS-RZ); high-speed optical pulse transmission; optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM); stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS);
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2008.2003407
