Coherent crosstalk impairments in polarization multiplexed transmission due to polarization mode dispersion

Optics Express

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 350-361

  Nelson, Lynn E ^a   Kogelnik, Herwig ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPLEXING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; POLARIZATION;

COHERENT CROSSTALK MECHANISMS; FREQUENCY INDEPENDENT COUPLING; POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTERS (PBS); POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXED SYSTEM;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 0004637947     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.7.000350     Document Type: Article

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