Reduction of nonlinear penalties through polarization interleaving in 2 × 10 Gb/s polarization-multiplexed transmission

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1337-1339

  van den Borne, D ^a   Jansen, S L ^a   Calabrò, Stefano ^b   Hecker Denschlag, N E ^b   Khoe, G D ^a   de Waardt, H ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross phase modulation (XPM); Nonlinearity tolerance; Polarization interleaving; Polarization multiplexing (POLMUX); Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHASE MODULATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CROSS PHASE MODULATION; NONLINEARITY TOLERANCE; POLARIZATION INTERLEAVING; POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXING (POLMUX);

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 20544459547     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.846614     Document Type: Article

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