DocumentCode
280405
Title
Polarisation effects in coherent optical communications
Author
Libbrecht, F. ; Lagasse, P.
Author_Institution
Lab. for Electromagnetism & Acoust., Gent Univ., Belgium
fYear
1990
fDate
33168
Firstpage
42522
Lastpage
42524
Abstract
The influence of some imperfections in the polarisation diversity circuit of a CPFSK system are studied. It is found that for nearly shot noise operation of the receiver and using a ratio combiner the influence of these imperfections is small
Keywords
diversity reception; frequency shift keying; light polarisation; optical communication equipment; random noise; receivers; CPFSK system; coherent optical communications; polarisation diversity circuit; ratio combiner; receiver; shot noise operation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Polarisation Effects in Optical Switching and Routing Systems, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location
London
Type
conf
Filename
190668
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