Conference Proceedings
PMD mitigation at 10 Gb/s using viterbi equalizer for DPSK and DQPSK modulation formats
W Chen, F Buchali, X Yi, W Shieh, JS Evans, RS Tucker
Acoft Aos 2006 Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology Australian Optical Society | Published : 2006
Abstract
We present simulations of Viterbi equalizers in 10 Gb/s NRZ-DPSK and NRZ-DQPSK systems. We show that an NRZ-DQPSK Viterbi receiver obtains a PMD tolerance of 160 ps at 3 dB OSNR penalty.