Dispersion compensation for homodyne detection systems using a 10-Gb/s optical PSK-VSB signal

Abstract

This letter demonstrates fiber chromatic dispersion compensation for optical homodyne detection systems, using a VSB filtered optical PSK signal. An optical PSK signal suitable for SSB and VSB filtering is newly employed. A 10-Gb/s optical PSK-VSB signal is transmitted with an optical carrier through 126 km conventional single-mode fiber. Penalty-free transmission is achieved by fiber chromatic dispersion compensation in the baseband with a 10-cm microstrip line.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>