Abstract
This paper analyzes optical transmission systems based on high-order
modulations such as phase-shift keying signals and quadrature amplitude modulations.
When the channel is affected by group velocity dispersion (GVD), polarization
mode dispersion (PMD), and phase uncertainties due to the laser phase noise,
the optimal receiver processing based on maximum-likelihood sequence detection
and its practical implementation through a Viterbi processor is described
without a specific constraint on the receiver front end. The implementation
issues are then faced, showing that at least a couple of widely known front
ends, with proper modifications, can be used to extract the required sufficient
statistics from the received signal. The aspects related to the receiver adaptivity,
the complexity reduction of the Viterbi processor, and the possibility of
employing polarization diversity at the transmitter end are also discussed.
It is demonstrated that, as long as a sufficient number of Viterbi processor
trellis states is employed, GVD and PMD entail no performance degradation
with respect to the case of no channel distortions (the back-to-back case).
© 2008 IEEE
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