Optimal polarization demultiplexing for coherent optical communications systems

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1121-1134

  Roudas, Ioannis ^a   Vgenis, Athanasios ^a   Petrou, Constantinos S ^a   Toumpakaris, Dimitris ^a   Hurley, Jason ^b   Sauer, Michel ^b   Downie, John ^b   Mauro, Yihong ^b   Raghavan, Srikanth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent communications; Constant modulus algorithm; Polarization demultiplexing

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL TRANSFER MATRIX; COHERENT COMMUNICATION; COHERENT OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; CONSTANT MODULUS ALGORITHM; CONSTANT MODULUS ALGORITHMS; DEMULTIPLEXERS; FIBER LINKS; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCIES; JOINT ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CRITERION; NOISE COMPONENTS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS; OPTICAL SIGNALS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; OPTIMAL POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; POLARIZATION DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; STATES OF POLARIZATIONS; ZERO-FORCING;

ACOUSTIC RECEIVERS; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; BLIND EQUALIZATION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DEMULTIPLEXING; FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONICS; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 77949748897     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2035526     Document Type: Article

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