OLO Optical local oscillator
OOK On-off keying
OPS Optical packet switching
OSNR Optimal signal-to-noise ratio
PAM Pulse amplitude modulation
PE Phase estimation
PMD Polarization-mode dispersion
PMUX Polarization-division multiplexing
PPB Photons per bit
PSK Phase-shift keying
QAM Quadrature amplitude modulation
ROADM Optical add/drop multiplexer
RZ Return-to-zero
SPM Self phase modulation
SSMF Standard single mode fiber
WDM Wavelength-division multiplexing
DWDM Dense wavelength-division multiplexing
XPM Cross-phase modulation
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The progress on self-coherent optical transport systems summarized in this chapter
implicitly represents the works of many researchers and developers around the
world, and in this limited space the authors were unable to ...