Title :
Polarization dependent power penalty in DPSK demodulation
Author :
Cotruta, Dragos ; Liboiron-Ladouceur, Odile ; Lize, Yannick Keith ; Plant, David V.
Author_Institution :
McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
We analyze the power penalty associated with polarization dependency in DPSK demodulation and we show that this power penalty can be directly determined from the FSR of the delay interferometer. We demonstrate polarization-dependent phase shift mitigation by optimization of the phase component on one of the branches of the delay interferometer.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; light interferometers; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; DPSK demodulation; delay interferometer; differential phase shift keying; phase shift mitigation; polarization dependency; power penalty; Delay; Demodulation; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Frequency; Optical attenuators; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Page description languages; Polarization; Power measurement; (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (060.2340) Fiber optics components; (060.5060) Phase modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
