Summary

Optoelectronics and Communications Conference/International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication

2007

Session Number:13B4

Session:

Number:13B4-5

Record PMD Mitigation of 11 ps for 43 Gb/s RZ-DPSK by Distributed Polarisation Scrambling

Axel Klekamp,  Henning Bulow,  

pp.596-597

Publication Date:2007/7/9

Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.34385/proc.49.13B4-5

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Summary:
We experimentally demonstrate a record mean DGD tolerance improvement of 220% to 11ps for 43Gb/s RZ-DPSK by a cascade of 5 distributed polarisation scramblers and UFEC. This tolerance for RZ exceeds the NRZ value by 2ps.