Effect of Laser Frequency Offset on Optical Minimumshift Keying Transmission System.pdfVIP

Effect of Laser Frequency Offset on Optical Minimum-shift Keying Transmission System a a a a b Han Chen* , Yi Dong , Hao He , Weisheng Hu , Lemin Li aState Key Lab of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dong Chuan Rd, Shanghai 200240, China, chenhan18934@; bKey Lab of Optical Fiber Transmission and Communication Networks, UEST of China Chengdu 610054, China, lml@ ABSTRACT As a special case of continuous phase frequency-shift-keying (FSK), minimum-shift keying (MSK) exhibits some different properties compared with the traditional optical phase modulation formats, such as return-to-zero (RZ) differential-phase-shift-keying (DPSK) and differential-quadrature-phase-shift-keying (DQPSK). In this paper, we investigated the receiver performance degradation caused by laser frequency offset between laser frequency and delay interferometer (DI) phase, which is found to be the most critical impairment for the receiver performance in a practical optical phase modulated system. Results show that MSK system is about double times and six times more robust to frequency offsets than RZ-DPSK and RZ-DQPSK systems operating at the same 10Gb/s bit rate, respectively. Keywords: delay interferometer (DI), minimum-shift keying (MSK), return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying (RZ- DPSK), return-to-zero differential-quadrature-phase-shift-keying (RZ-DQPSK), frequency offset, Q factor 1. INTRODUCTION Recent efforts have been made to increase the spectral effi