• DocumentCode
    1003963
  • Title

    Dynamic PMD Mitigation at 10 Gb/s Using Viterbi Equalization in DPSK Systems

  • Author

    Chen, Wei ; Buchali, Fred ; Yi, Xingwen ; Shieh, William

  • Author_Institution
    Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven
  • Volume
    21
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    191
  • Lastpage
    193
  • Abstract
    Compensating dynamically changing polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) is important for optical fiber transmission systems. We present simulations of a Viterbi equalization for dynamic PMD mitigation in 10-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero differential phase-shift keying systems. The equalizer can dynamically track fast varying differential group delay (DGD) and achieve similar performance to static DGD.
  • Keywords
    Viterbi decoding; delays; differential phase shift keying; equalisers; DPSK systems; Viterbi equalization; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; differential group delay; differential phase-shift keying; dynamic PMD mitigation; optical fiber transmission; polarization-mode dispersion; Differential modulation format; Viterbi equalizer; polarization- mode-dispersion (PMD) mitigation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2008.2009544
  • Filename
    4685865