DocumentCode
1891470
Title
Electronic equalization of polarization mode dispersion in coherent POL-MUX QPSK systems
Author
Mantzoukis, N. ; Petrou, C.S. ; Vgenis, A. ; Roudas, I. ; Kamalakis, T. ; Raptis, L.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Patras, Rio, Greece
fYear
2009
fDate
20-24 Sept. 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We present a comparison of adaptive electronic PMD equalizers for coherent phase- and polarization-diversity QPSK receivers using the multicanonical Monte Carlo method. A 5-tap equalizer using the CMA sufficiently reduces the outage probability below 10-5.
Keywords
Monte Carlo methods; adaptive equalisers; optical communication; quadrature phase shift keying; CMA; adaptive electronic PMD equalizers; coherent POL-MUX QPSK systems; coherent phase-diversity QPSK receiver; constant modulus algorithm; electronic equalization; multicanonical Monte Carlo method; polarization mode dispersion; polarization-diversity QPSK receiver; Birefringence; Equalizers; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Polarization mode dispersion; Quadrature phase shift keying; Signal to noise ratio; Telecommunications;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
Conference_Location
Vienna
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5096-1
Type
conf
Filename
5287411
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