RZ-DPSK Transmission Using a 42.7-Gb/s Integrated Balanced Optical Front End With Record Sensitivity

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 180-185

  Sinsky, Jeffrey H ^a   Adamiecki, Andrew ^a   Gnauck, Alan ^a   Burrus Jr , Charles A ^a   Leuthold, Juerg ^a   Wohlgemuth, Oliver ^b   Chandrasekhar, S ^a   Umbach, Andreas ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c U2T PHOTONICS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differential phase shift keying (DPSK); External delay interferometer; Forward error correction; Integrated hybrid optical front end; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optically preamplified sensitivity

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; ERROR CORRECTION; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFT KEYING (DPSK); EXTERNAL DELAY INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FRONT ENDS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 1442287417     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.822212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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