Impact of Pulse Roll-off and Dispersion Map on the Performance of 50 GHz-Spaced 32 GB PDM-QPSK Systems

21 September 2014

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The impact of the spectral roll-off and the dispersion map on the peformance of dispersion-managed 50 GHz spaced 32GB PDM-QPSK WDM systems is experimentally studied. Pulse-shaping nonlinearity mitigation gain, impact of polarization interleaving on performance stability, and cycle-slip are addressed.