• DocumentCode
    2850374
  • Title

    Polarization-multiplexed transmission system outage due to nonlinearity-lnduced depolarization

  • Author

    Winter, Marcus ; Kroushkov, Dimitar ; Petermann, Klaus

  • Author_Institution
    Tech. Univ. Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    We show how cross-polarization modulation and its associated signal depolarization can cause significant penalties in polarization-division multiplexed systems. We then explore the concept of degrees of freedom of a system to analyze the statistics of this impairment.
  • Keywords
    modulation; multiplexing; polarisation; cross-polarization modulation; nonlinearity-induced depolarization; polarization-division multiplexed system; polarization-multiplexed transmission system outage; signal depolarization; Crosstalk; Modulation; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber theory; Probes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621577
  • Filename
    5621577