Performance comparison of singly-polarized and polarisation-multiplexed coherent transmission at 10Gbauds under linear impairments

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Charlet, Gabriel; Renaudier, Jrmie; Pardo, Oriol Bertran; Mardoyan, Haik; Bigo, Sbastien (Alcatel-Lucent, Research and Innovation, Centre de Villarceaux, 91620, Nozay, France)
Salsi, Massiniliano (Dip. di Ing. dell'lnformazione, Universit di Parma, Italy)

Abstract:
The tolerance to narrow filtering and PMD is measured with and without polarization multiplexing at 10Gbauds based on QPSK formaf. Only a limited penalty is induced by polarization multiplexing, despite doubling of the channel rate.