Single-Carrier vs. Dual-Carrier Transmission of 100Gb/s coherent PDM-QPSK over NZ-DSF Fibre
Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria
Proceedings: ECOC 2009
Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Bertolini, M.; Salsi, M.; Charlet, G.; Mardoyan, H.; Tran, P.; Bertran-Pardo, O.; Renaudier, J.; Bigo, S. (Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, Centre de Villarceaux, Route de Villejuste, 91620, Nozay, France)
Bertolini, M. (Università di Parma, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, v.le G. P. Usberti, 43100, Parma, Italy)
Abstract:
We experimentally compare 100Gb/s PDM-QPSK in single-carrier and dual-carrier configuration over 800km of NZ-DSF fibre. Using 40Gb/s P-DPSK and 10Gb/s OOK neighbours the lower tolerance to nonlinear effects of the dual-carrier solution is demonstrated.