• DocumentCode
    2847635
  • Title

    Capacity loss due to polarization effects in coherent optical systems

  • Author

    Matarazzo, E. ; Mayrock, M.

  • Author_Institution
    CEIICP, Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa, Italy
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Optical fiber channels are investigated with respect to channel capacity. Singular value decomposition based estimation of SNR penalties due to PDL predicts high losses. In contrast, the capacity based approach yields distinctly lower values relevant along with polarization-time coding.
  • Keywords
    encoding; optical fibre communication; polarisation; singular value decomposition; capacity loss; channel capacity; coherent optical system; optical fiber channel; polarization effects; polarization-time coding; singular value decomposition based estimation; Mathematical model; Optical amplifiers; Optical distortion; Optical fiber amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621409
  • Filename
    5621409