Pattern sensitivity in electronic dispersion compensation using full optical-field reconstruction

J. Zhao*, M. E. McCarthy, P. Gunning, A. D. Ellis

*Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    We investigate the pattern-dependent decoding failures that occur with electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) when using full optical-field reconstruction, and find that the performance of such an EDC receiver may be degraded by an isolated '1' bit surrounded by long strings of consecutive '0's. By reducing the probability of occurrence of this kind of isolated '1', we experimentally achieved 10Gbit/s on-off keyed signal transmission over 372km field-installed single-mode fiber without optical dispersion compensation.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number71362B
    JournalProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
    Volume7136
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2008
    EventOptical Transmission, Switching, and Subsystems VI - Hangzhou, China
    Duration: 27 Oct 2008 → …

    Keywords

    • , chromatic dispersion
    • Detection
    • Electronic dispersion compensation
    • Fiber optics communications
    • Modulation
    • Optical signal-to-noise ratio

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