Measurement of the dispersion tolerance of optical duobinary with an MLSE-receiver at 10.7 Gb/s

J.-P. Elbers, H. Wernz, C. Glingener, A. Faerbert, S. Langenbach, Nebojša Stojanović, C. Dorschky, T. Kupfer, C. Schulien

OFC/NFOEC Technical Digest. Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. · 2005 · 41 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a significant improvement in the dispersion tolerance of optical duobinary modulation when employing an MLSE instead of a standard receiver. We show that the improvement critically depends on the MLSE design.