Nonlinear Penalty Reduction Induced by PMD in 112 Gbit/s WDM PDM-QPSK Coherent Systems
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:
Serena, P.; Rossi, N.; Bononi, A. (Università degli Studi di Parma, dept. Ingegneria dell’Informazione, v.le G. Usberti 181/A, 43100 Parma, Italy)
Abstract:
We show by simulation that when linear PMD is fully compensated by the receiver, the presence of DGD along the link reduces the amount of residual nonlinear penalty in 112 Gbit/s PDM-QPSK coherent systems.