Title :
Polarisation effects in coherent optical communications
Author :
Libbrecht, F. ; Lagasse, P.
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Electromagnetism & Acoust., Gent Univ., Belgium
Abstract :
The influence of some imperfections in the polarisation diversity circuit of a CPFSK system are studied. It is found that for nearly shot noise operation of the receiver and using a ratio combiner the influence of these imperfections is small
Keywords :
diversity reception; frequency shift keying; light polarisation; optical communication equipment; random noise; receivers; CPFSK system; coherent optical communications; polarisation diversity circuit; ratio combiner; receiver; shot noise operation;
Conference_Titel :
Polarisation Effects in Optical Switching and Routing Systems, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
