Stimulated Brillouin scattering in ultrahigh-speed in-phase RZ and CS-RZ OTDM transmission

Toshihiko Hirooka, Kou Osawa, Masatada Okazaki, Masataka Nakazawa, Hitoshi Murai

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Abstract

We report that stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) plays an important role in ultrahigh-speed bitwise phase-controlled optical time-division multiplexing transmissions such as in-phase and carrier-suppressed return-to-zero (RZ). We show that the optical power can easily exceed the SBS threshold for such high-speed coherent RZ signals. The SBS-induced performance limitation in a 160-Gb/s-520 km transmission is described in detail.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1694-1696
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume20
Issue number20
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008 Oct 15

Keywords

  • Carrier-suppressed return-to-zero (CS-RZ)
  • High-speed optical pulse transmission
  • Optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM)
  • Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS)

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