Title :
Performance comparison of singly-polarised and polarisation-multiplexed coherent transmission at 10Gbauds under linear impairments
Author :
Charlet, G. ; Salsi, M. ; Renaudier, J. ; Pardo, O.B. ; Mardoyan, H. ; Bigo, S.
Author_Institution :
Alcatel-Lucent, Nozay
Abstract :
The tolerance to narrow filtering and polarisation mode dispersion is measured with and without polarisation multiplexing at 10Gbauds based on QPSK format. Only a limited penalty is induced by polarisation multiplexing, despite doubling of the channel rate.
Keywords :
blind equalisers; electromagnetic wave polarisation; electromagnetic wave transmission; multiplexing; quadrature phase shift keying; QPSK format; blind equalisation; narrow filtering; polarisation mode dispersion; polarisation-multiplexed coherent transmission;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20072246
