Robustness of 40 Gb/s ASK modulation formats in the practical system infrastructure
Pincemin, E.; Tan, A.; Bezard, A.; Tonello, A.; Wabnitz, S.; Ania-Castañòn, J.-D.; Turitsyn, S.
Optics Express 14(25): 12049-12062
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 1094-4087
PMID: 19529632
DOI: 10.1364/oe.14.012049
Accession: 055595039
In this work, we theoretically and experimentally analyzed the resilience of 40 Gb/s amplitude shift keying modulation formats to transmission impairments in standard single-mode fiber lines as well as to optical filtering introduced by the optical add/drop multiplexer cascade. Our study is a pre-requisite to assess the implementation of cost-effective 40 Gb/s modulation technology in next generation high bit-rate robust optical transport networks.