Coherent demodulation of 40-Gbit/s polarization-multiplexed QPSK signals with 16-GHz spacing after 200-km transmission

Satoshi Tsukamoto, Dany-Sebastien Ly-Gagnon, Kazuhiro Katoh, K. Kikuchi

OFC/NFOEC Technical Digest. Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. · 2005 · 125 citations · 4 references

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Abstract

40-Gbit/s polarization-multiplexed QPSK signals with 16-GHz spacing are demodulated after 200-km transmission by using a homodyne phase-diversity receiver. The highlights of our scheme are electrical post-filtering and digital signal processing that enhance the BER performance.

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