Reduction of intrachannel four-wave mixing using the alternate-phase RZ modulation format

Marco Forzati, Jonas Mårtensson, A. Berntson, Anders Djupsjöbacka, Pontus Johannisson

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 2002 · 67 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

The authors propose a modulation format in which the phase of the signal pulses alternates, in order to reduce the intrachannel four-wave mixing. They demonstrate numerically that the performance of a 40-Gb/s transmission link can be substantially improved.

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