Electronic Dispersion Compensation Based on Optical Field Reconstruction with Orthogonal Differential Direct-Detection and Digital Signal Processing

25 March 2007

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We present a receiver-side electronic dispersion compensation scheme based on optical field reconstruction using orthogonal differential direct-detection and DSP. Dispersion compensations for 20-Gb/s DQPSK and 10-Gb/s OOK signals over 2000-km SSMF transmission are numerically demonstrated.