Title : 
Generation of a polarization shift keying signal and its application in optical labeling
         
        
            Author : 
Chi, Nan ; Yu, Siyuan ; Xu, Lin ; Jappesen, Palle
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Centre for Commun. Res., Bristol Univ., UK
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We propose a novel scheme to generate a polarization shift keying (PolSK) signal. Transmission and label swapping are experimentally demonstrated for an orthogonally labelled signal consisting of a 40 Gb/s DPSK payload a 2.5 Gb/s PolSK label.
         
        
            Keywords : 
differential phase shift keying; electro-optical modulation; optical communication equipment; packet switching; 2.5 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; DPSK payload; Mach-Zehnder modulator; label swapping; optical labeling; orthogonally labelled signal; packet switching; polarization shift keying signal generation; transmission swapping;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
IET
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-86341-543-1