Experimental Characterisation of the Impact of Neighbouring Modulation-Formats on 43Gb/s P-DPSK over SSMF and LEAF

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:
Stephens, M. F. C.; Dlubek, M. P.; Phillips, I. D.; Squires, A.; Cox, D. M.; Riggs, I.; Pike, N.; Fews, H.; Gleeson, L. M. (Optical Networks, Ericsson Ltd, New Century Park, Coventry, UK, CV3 1JG)

Abstract:
We report an experimental characterisation examining the impact of differing 50GHz neighbouring modulation formats and bit rates on the performance of 43Gb/s P-DPSK over 1300km of SSMF and LEAFTM fibre types. Performance is shown to be robust for hybrid P-DPSK and OOK systems.