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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5096-1
