Pre-compensation for the Effects of Cascaded Optical Filtering on 10 Gsymbol/s DPSK and DQPSK Signals

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:
Jiang, Ying; Tang, Xuefeng; Cartledge, John C. (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6)
Roberts, Kim (Nortel Networks, 3500 Carling Ave., Nepean, Ontario, Canada K2H 8E9)

Abstract:
The effects of cascaded optical filtering on 10 Gsymbol/s DPSK and DQPSK signals are mitigated by pre-compensation based on the use of digital signal processing to generate the drive signals for a dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator.