Abstract | ||
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Fiber-optic communication systems form the high-capacity transport infrastructure that enables global broadband data services and advanced Internet applications. The desire for higher per-fiber transport capacities and, at the same time, the drive for lower costs per end-to-end transmitted information bit has led to optically routed networks with high spectral efficiencies. Among other enabling technologies, advanced optical modulation formats have become key to the design of modern wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) fiber systems. In this paper, we review optical modulation formats in the broader context of optically routed WDM networks. We discuss the generation and detection of multigigabit/s intensity- and phase-modulated formats, and highlight their resilience to key impairments found in optical networking, such as optical amplifier noise, multipath interference, chromatic dispersion, polarization-mode dispersion, WDM crosstalk, concatenated optical filtering, and fiber nonlinearity |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2006 | 10.1109/JPROC.2006.873438 | Proceedings of the IEEE |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
optical fibre networks,optical modulation,phase modulation,wavelength division multiplexing,WDM crosstalk,advanced Internet applications,broadband data services,chromatic dispersion,concatenated optical filtering,differential phase modulation,digital modulation,fiber nonlinearity,fiber-optic communication systems,high-capacity transport infrastructure,intensity modulation,intensity-modulated formats,multipath interference,optical amplifier noise,optical communication,optical modulation formats,optical networking,optically routed WDM networks,optically routed networks,per-fiber transport capacities,phase-modulated formats,polarization-mode dispersion,wavelength division multiplexed fiber systems,Differential phase modulation,digital modulation,intensity modulation,optical communication,optical networks,wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) | Optical amplifier,Wavelength-division multiplexing,Phase modulation,Computer science,Optical communication,Electronic engineering,Broadband,Optical networking,Polarization mode dispersion,Multiplexing | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
94 | 5 | 0018-9219 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
4 | 1.07 | 0 |
Authors | ||
2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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P. J. Winzer | 1 | 20 | 7.80 |
René-Jean Essiambre | 2 | 4 | 1.41 |