Performance of turbo equalizers for optical PMD channels

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1226-1236

  Jäger, Mark ^a   Rankl, Tobias ^a   Speidel, Joachim ^a   Bülow, Henning ^b   Buchali, Fred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Iterative equalization; Optical communications; Polarization mode dispersion (PMD); Signal dependent noise

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXTRINSIC INFORMATION TRANSFER (EXIT); ITERATIVE EQUALIZATION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI (MAP); OPTICAL CHANNEL; OPTICAL-FIBER TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION-MODE DISPERSION (PMD); SIGNAL-DEPENDENT NOISE;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33645004284     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.863281     Document Type: Article

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