• DocumentCode
    449081
  • Title

    Improved PMD tolerance in systems using enhanced forward error correction through distributed fast polarization scrambling

  • Author

    Liu, X. ; Giles, C.R. ; Wei, X. ; van Wijngaarden, A.J. ; Kao, Y.-H. ; Xie, C. ; Möller, L.

  • Author_Institution
    Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    25-29 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    343
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate that distributed fast polarization scramblers in a differential phase-shift keying transmission system with an enhanced forward error correction code outperforms the standard Reed-Solomon code and improves the polarization-mode dispersion tolerance by 140%.
  • Keywords
    differential phase shift keying; forward error correction; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; FEC code; PMD tolerance; differential phase-shift keying; distributed polarization scrambling; fast polarization scrambling; forward error correction; optical transmission system; polarization-mode dispersion tolerance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    IET
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-86341-543-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1576273