Reduction of nonlinear penalties through polarization interleaving in 2×10 gb/s polarization-multiplexed transmission

Author

van den Borne, D. ; Jansen, S.L. ; Calabrò, Stefano ; Hecker-Denschlag, N.E. ; Khoe, G.D. ; de Waardt, H.

Author_Institution

COBRA Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

Volume

17

Issue

6

fYear

2005

fDate

6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1337

Lastpage

1339

Abstract

We simulated the nonlinear transmission penalties induced through cross-phase modulation related depolarization in 2×10 Gb/s polarization-multiplexed (POLMUX) transmission. We find that launching adjacent wavelength-division-multiplexed channels with a 180° relative state of polarization shift results in a significant decrease in nonlinear transmission penalties and allows for longer distance POLMUX transmission.

Keywords

nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 20 Gbit/s; cross-phase modulation; depolarization; nonlinear transmission penalties; polarization interleaving; polarization-multiplexed transmission; wavelength-division-multiplexed channels; Interleaved codes; Laboratories; OFDM; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical signal processing; Wavelength division multiplexing; Cross-phase modulation (XPM); nonlinearity tolerance; polarization interleaving; polarization multiplexing (POLMUX); wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.846614

Filename

1432821