Title :
Polarization dependent frequency shift induced BER penalty in DPSK demodulators
Author :
Cotruta, Dragos ; Xu, Xian ; Plant, David V. ; Liboiron-Ladouceur, Odile
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
We experimentally analyzed the induced penalty due to polarization dependent frequency shift (PDf) for 10 GHz and 40 GHz DPSK demodulators, revealing a strong correlation with the PDf ratio and filtering effect of the delay interferometer.
Keywords :
demodulators; differential phase shift keying; error statistics; filtering theory; light interferometers; optical correlation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; BER penalty; DPSK demodulator; delay interferometer; frequency 10 GHz; frequency 40 GHz; optical correlation; optical filtering effect; polarization-dependent frequency shift; Bit error rate; Delay effects; Demodulation; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Filtering; Frequency; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical polarization;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Belek-Antalya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3680-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343193
