Abstract
We analyze the performance through numerical simulations of a new modulation format: serial dark soliton (SDS) for wide-area 100-Gb/s applications. We compare the performance of the SDS with conventional dark soliton, amplitude-modulation phase-shift keying (also known as duobinary), nonreturn-to-zero, and return-to-zero modulation formats, when subjected to typical wide-area-network impairments. We show that the SDS has a strong chromatic dispersion and polarization-mode-dispersion tolerance, while maintaining a compact spectrum suitable for strong filtering requirement in ultradense wavelength-division-multiplexing applications. The SDS can be generated using commercially available components for 40-Gb/s applications and is cost efficient when compared with other 100-Gb/s electrical-time-division-multiplexing systems.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1521-1523 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | IEEE Photonics Technology Letters |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 14 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Jul 2006 |
Keywords
- 100-Gb-Ethernet
- dark soliton
- modulation formats