DocumentCode
2534081
Title
Polarization dependent frequency shift induced BER penalty in DPSK demodulators
Author
Cotruta, Dragos ; Xu, Xian ; Plant, David V. ; Liboiron-Ladouceur, Odile
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
fYear
2009
fDate
4-8 Oct. 2009
Firstpage
483
Lastpage
484
Abstract
We experimentally analyzed the induced penalty due to polarization dependent frequency shift (PDf) for 10 GHz and 40 GHz DPSK demodulators, revealing a strong correlation with the PDf ratio and filtering effect of the delay interferometer.
Keywords
demodulators; differential phase shift keying; error statistics; filtering theory; light interferometers; optical correlation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; BER penalty; DPSK demodulator; delay interferometer; frequency 10 GHz; frequency 40 GHz; optical correlation; optical filtering effect; polarization-dependent frequency shift; Bit error rate; Delay effects; Demodulation; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Filtering; Frequency; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical polarization;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
Conference_Location
Belek-Antalya
ISSN
1092-8081
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-3680-4
Electronic_ISBN
1092-8081
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343193
Filename
5343193
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