Comparison of Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation equalizer performance with OOK and DPSK at 10.7 Gb/s

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I. L. Lobato Polo, E. Brinkmeyer, D. van den Borne, H. Waardt, E. Gottwald,
Comparison of Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation equalizer performance with OOK and DPSK at 10.7 Gb/s
European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), September 24-28, Cannes, France (Paper We2.5.3), (2006)

Abstract: We experimentally compare MLSE equalization with OOK and DPSK in the presence of chromatic- and polarization-mode dispersion. We show that the 3-dB OSNR advantage of DPSK is lost in the presence of chromatic dispersion but maintained with polarization-mode dispersion.

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