Title :
Fast feed-forward polarization tracking in a DP-mPSK coherent receiver employing blind SOP estimation
Author :
Yoshida, T. ; Sugihara, T. ; Goto, H. ; Tokura, T. ; Ishida, K. ; Mizuochi, T.
Author_Institution :
Inf. Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kamakura, Japan
Abstract :
Novel feed-forward polarization tracking is proposed using differential detection of the X and Y polarizations. An experiment showed that the proposed method mitigated 2.6 dB penalty caused by 10 MHz polarization rotation for 43G DP-QPSK.
Keywords :
feedforward; optical fibre communication; optical receivers; quadrature phase shift keying; DP-mPSK coherent receiver; X polarizations; Y polarizations; blind SOP estimation; differential detection; fast feed-forward polarization tracking; feedforward polarization tracking; Adaptive equalizers; Demultiplexing; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Viterbi algorithm;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
