Abstract
We show that chromatic dispersion induced local oscillator (LO) phase noise to amplitude noise conversion significantly degrades the performance of a high-speed coherent system without optical dispersion compensation and tightens the requirement on LO linewidth.
© 2009 Optical Society of America
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