Stable 100-Gb/s POLMUX-DQPSK transmission with automatic polarization stabilization

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 745-747

  Boffi, P ^a,b   Ferrario, M ^a   Marazzi, L ^a   Martelli, P ^a   Parolari, P ^a   Righetti, A ^a   Siano, R ^a   Martinelli, M ^a,b  

^a Consortium Research Optical Processing and Switching Milan ^*  (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Differential quadrature phase shift keying (DQPSK); Optical fiber communication; Polarization multiplexing (POLMUX); Polarization stabilizer

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIC DISPERSION TOLERANCE; DIFFERENTIAL QUADRATURE PHASE-SHIFT KEYING; DIRECT DETECTION; LONG TERM STABILITY; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXING; POLARIZATION SCRAMBLER; POLARIZATION STABILIZATION; POLARIZATION STABILIZER; RETURN-TO-ZERO; STANDARD SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

BIT ERROR RATE; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE SHIFT; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING; STABILIZATION;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 70349677241     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2016758     Document Type: Article

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