• DocumentCode
    378500
  • Title

    Intra-bit polarization diversity modulation for PMD mitigation

  • Author

    Pan, Z. ; Wang, Y. ; Yu, C. ; Luo, T. ; Sahin, A.B. ; Yu, Q. ; Willner, A.E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    450
  • Abstract
    We propose and demonstrate a novel intra-bit polarization diversity modulation technique that can completely remove first-order polarization mode dispersion (PMD). The performance is independent of the differential group delay (DGD) value. A 4 dB improvement of 2% received optical power tail is obtained over the conventional NRZ format in the presence of higher-order PMD.
  • Keywords
    delays; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; DGD; NRZ format; PMD mitigation; differential group delay; first-order polarization mode dispersion; higher-order PMD; intra-bit polarization diversity modulation; Delay effects; Optical feedback; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Switches; Tail;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6705-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2001.989710
  • Filename
    989710