• 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