Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) Performance of a Coherent 40Gbit/s Dual-Polarization Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DP-QPSK) Transceiver

Charles Laperle,Bernard Villeneuve,Zhuhong Zhang,Doug McGhan,Han Sun,Maurice OSullivan

Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) Performance of a Coherent 40Gbit/s Dual-Polarization Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DP-QPSK) Transceiver

2007

Charles Laperle
Bernard Villeneuve
Zhuhong Zhang
Doug McGhan
Han Sun
Maurice OSullivan

We report the measured WDM performance and PMD tolerance of a coherent 40Gbit/s DP-QPSK transceiver at 50-GHz minimum channel spacing in a 40-channel, 40-span test bed comprised of 3200 km of uncompensated G.652 fiber.

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Quadrature (mathematics)
Phase-shift keying
Dispersion-shifted fiber
Dual-polarization interferometry
Polarization mode dispersion
Channel spacing
Optics
Wavelength-division multiplexing
Transceiver
Engineering
Electronic engineering
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