100 Gb/s Challenges and Solutions

The article consists of a Powerpoint presentation on 100 Gb/s optical transport network. The areas discussed include: 100 Gb/s transport formats; transmission system design and trade-offs; IP traffic; parallel wavelength approach; serial transport approach; serial modulation; ETDM OOK transmitter; optical duobinary filtering and modulation; optical equalization; BER performance; polarization-multiplexed DQPSK; coherent optical receiver; optical signal-to-noise ratio; chromatic dispersion tolerance; polarization mode dispersion; nonlinear interactions; electronic and opto-electronic components; WDM NRZ transmission; VSB transmission; Ethernet; and spectral efficiency etc. etc.