Mitigation of pattern sensitivity in full-field electronic dispersion compensation

Jian A. Zhao, Mary E. McCarthy, Paul Gunning, Andrew D. Ellis

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Abstract

We investigate the pattern-dependent decoding failures in full-field electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) by offline processing of experimental signals, and find that the performance of such an EDC receiver may be degraded by an isolated "1" bit surrounded by long strings of consecutive "0s". By reducing the probability of occurrence of this kind of isolated "1" and using a novel adaptive threshold decoding method, we greatly improve the compensation performance to achieve 10-Gb/s on-off keyed signal transmission over 496-km field-installed single-mode fiber without optical dispersion compensation.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)48-50
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume21
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2009

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Keywords

  • chromatic dispersion
  • detection
  • modulation
  • electronic dispersion compensation

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