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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621577
