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Improved polarization-mode-dispersion tolerance in duobinary transmission

  • Noriaki Kaneda*
  • , Xiang Liu
  • , Zheng Zheng
  • , Xing Wei
  • , Moncef Tayahi
  • , Mahan Movassaghi
  • , David Levy
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Nokia

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Abstract

Polarization-mode-dispersion tolerance of a low-pass filter duobinary modulation format is investigated. With the optimum residual dispersion, the optical signal-to-noise ratio penalty at a differential group delay of 40 ps is measured to be 1 dB (at BER = 6 × 10-5): 1.5 dB less than that without residual dispersion in a 10.7-Gb/s duobinary transmission. Numerical simulations show reasonable agreement with the experimental results.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1005-1007
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume15
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2003
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Dispersion
  • Optical duobinary
  • Polarization-mode dispersion (PMD)

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