Performance degradation in coherent polarization multiplexed systems as a result of polarization dependent loss

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 13918-13932

  Shtaif, Mark ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIPLEXING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING; COHERENT POLARIZATION; MODULATION FORMATS; MULTIPLEXED SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; POLARIZATION CONTROL; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS;

POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 51149099965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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12. This is what happens when each channel passes through different optical routes before being multiplexed into the transmission fiber.