• DocumentCode
    712746
  • Title

    Pairwise coding to mitigate polarization dependent loss

  • Author

    Chen Zhu ; Binhuang Song ; Leimeng Zhuang ; Corcoran, Bill ; Lowery, Arthur J.

  • Author_Institution
    Electro-Photonics Lab., Monash Univ., Clayton, WA, Australia
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    By pre-coding data across polarizations, the performance degradation due to PDL can be largely mitigated without any coding overhead. Experimentally, this technique shows more than 2-dB Q2 improvement for PDM-QPSK with 6-dB worst-case PDL.
  • Keywords
    encoding; multiplexing; optical communication; quadrature phase shift keying; PDM-QPSK; pairwise coding; polarization dependent loss; polarization dependent multiplexed quadrature phase shift keying; pre-coding data across polarizations; Adaptive optics; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optimized production technology; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7122134