Electronic Equalization of Polarization Mode Dispersion in Coherent POL-MUX QPSK Systems
Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria
Proceedings: ECOC 2009
Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Mantzoukis, N.; Petrou, C. S.; Vgenis, A.; Roudas, I. (Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patra s, Rio, Greece)
Kamalakis, T. (Dept. of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopion University of Athens, Kallithea, Greece)
Raptis, L. (Lampros Raptis, Attika Telecom)
Abstract:
We present a comparison of adaptive electronic PMD equalizers for coherent phase- and polarization-diversity QPSK receivers using the multicanonical Monte Carlo method. A 5-tap equalizer using the CMA sufficiently reduces the outage probability below 10-5.