TY - JOUR
T1 - Full-field electronic dispersion compensation of a 10 Gbit/s OOK signal over 4 x 124 km field-installed single-mode fibre
AU - McCarthy, Mary E.
AU - Zhao, Jian A.
AU - Ellis, Andrew D.
AU - Gunning, Paul
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - We experimentally demonstrate the use of full-field electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) to achieve a bit error rate of 5 x 10(-5) at 22.3 dB optical signal-to-noise ratio for single-channel 10 Gbit/s on-off keyed signal after transmission over 496 km field-installed single-mode fibre with an amplifier spacing of 124 km. This performance is achieved by designing the EDC so as to avoid electronic amplification of the noise content of the signal during full-field reconstruction. We also investigate the tolerance of the system to key signal processing parameters, and numerically demonstrate that single-channel 2160 km single mode fibre transmission without in-line optical dispersion compensation can be achieved using this technique with 80 km amplifier spacing and optimized system parameters.
AB - We experimentally demonstrate the use of full-field electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) to achieve a bit error rate of 5 x 10(-5) at 22.3 dB optical signal-to-noise ratio for single-channel 10 Gbit/s on-off keyed signal after transmission over 496 km field-installed single-mode fibre with an amplifier spacing of 124 km. This performance is achieved by designing the EDC so as to avoid electronic amplification of the noise content of the signal during full-field reconstruction. We also investigate the tolerance of the system to key signal processing parameters, and numerically demonstrate that single-channel 2160 km single mode fibre transmission without in-line optical dispersion compensation can be achieved using this technique with 80 km amplifier spacing and optimized system parameters.
KW - Asymmetric Mach–Zehnder interferometer
KW - chromatic dispersion
KW - electronic dispersion compensation
KW - detection
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UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5210214
U2 - 10.1109/JLT.2009.2030518
DO - 10.1109/JLT.2009.2030518
M3 - Article
SN - 0733-8724
VL - 27
SP - 5327
EP - 5335
JO - Journal of Lightwave Technology
JF - Journal of Lightwave Technology
IS - 23
ER -