Dispersion Management in WDM Coherent PDM-QPSK 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:
Xie, Chongjin (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, 791 Holmdel-Keyport Road, Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA)
Abstract:
We show that dispersion management with DCF does not outperform electronic dispersion compensation for WDM coherent NRZ-PDM-QPSK systems, but for time-interleaved RZ-PDM-QPSK systems, dispersion management provides higher nonlinear tolerance than electronic dispersion compensation alone.