Monitoring of DPSK/DQPSK Signals using 1-Bit Delayed Self-Homodyne Detection with Optical Phase Diversity

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Tanimura, Kazunori; Ohta, Hiroshi (Yokogawa Electric Corporation, 2-9-32 Nakacho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8750, Japan)

Abstract:
We developed a method for analysing DPSK/DQPSK signals using 1-bit delayed self-homodyne detection. A clear difference in the 40-Gbit/s RZ-DQPSK signals was observed in the analytical distributions of transitional amplitude and phase variations.