Title :
Differential Phase-Shift Keying Receiver Design Applied to Strong Optical Filtering
Author :
Malouin, C. ; Bennike, J. ; Schmidt, T.J.
Author_Institution :
StrataLight Commun., Los Gatos
Abstract :
We study, via simulation and experiments, the influence of the differential phase-shift keying decoder free spectral range (FSR) when strong optical filtering is considered for the nonreturn-to-zero and return-to-zero modulation formats and show that larger FSR can improve performance.
Keywords :
decoding; differential phase shift keying; optical design techniques; optical filters; optical modulation; optical receivers; wavelength division multiplexing; DPSK; DWDM; decoder free spectral range; differential phase-shift keying receiver design; nonreturn-to-zero modulation format; optical communication; optical filtering; optical modulation; optical receivers; optical signal detection; return-to-zero modulation format; Differential phase-shift keying (DPSK); optical communication; optical filters; optical modulation; optical receivers; optical signal detection; phase-shift keying;
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2007.907750
