Advance Modulation and Multiplexing in Optical Communication Systems

Advanced optical modulation and multiplexing techniques have become a key ingredient to the design of modern WDM optically routed networks. This book, reviews the generation and detection of multigigabit/second intensity- and phase modulated formats and highlights their resilience to key impairments found in optical networking, such as optical amplifier noise, chromatic dispersion, WDM crosstalk and fiber nonlinearity. A novel multiplexing technique, namely Absolute Polar Duty Cycle Division Multiplexing (AP-DCDM) which is based on the polar signaling and different return to zero (RZ) duty cycles is reported for high speed optical fiber communication systems. Unlike all the other techniques, in AP-DCDM different users share the communication medium to transmit in the same time period and at the same carrier wavelength, but with different duty cycles. The unique duty cycle for each channel helps to regenerate data at the receiver