Experimental Assessment of Interactions Between Nonlinear Impairments and Polarization-Mode Dispersion in 100-Gb/s Coherent Systems Versus Receiver Complexity

Author

Bertran-Pardo, Oriol ; Renaudier, Jérémie ; Charlet, Gabriel ; Tran, Patrice ; Mardoyan, HaïK ; Salsi, Massimiliano ; Bigo, Sébastien

Author_Institution

Centre de Villarceaux, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs., Nozay

Volume

21

Issue

1

fYear

2009

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

53

Abstract

We investigate experimentally the tolerance to polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) of 100-Gb/s polarization- division-multiplexing quaternary phase-shift keying systems under nonlinear impairments. We show that nonlinear effects decrease the robustness of the system against PMD. Moreover, we study the dependence of this robustness on the complexity of the receiver.

Keywords

multiplexing; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical receivers; phase shift keying; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; coherent systems; nonlinear impairments; polarization division multiplexing quaternary phase shift keying systems; polarization-mode dispersion; receiver complexity; Coherent detection; digital signal processing; nonlinearities; optical fiber communication; phase-shift keying; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2008.2008206

Filename

4663492