Polarization-Time Coded OFDM for PDL Mitigation in Long-Haul Optical Transmission Systems

Elie Awwad (1, 2, 3) , Yves Jaouën (2, 1) , Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman (2, 1) , Erwan Pincemin (4)

1 COMELEC - Département Communications & Electronique
2 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information
3 Télécom Paris
4 Orange Labs [Lannion]

We experimentally demonstrate the potential of Polarization-Time codes in mitigating PDL in long-haul transmissions. The Silver code exhibits the best performance (2dB Q-penalty reduction at a PDL of 6dB). Moreover, for inline PDL, it improves the mean Q-factor by 0.6dB while significantly narrowing the variance of the corresponding distribution.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Elie Awwad, Yves Jaouën, Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman, Erwan Pincemin. Polarization-Time Coded OFDM for PDL Mitigation in Long-Haul Optical Transmission Systems. European Conference on Optical Communications, Sep 2013, London, United Kingdom. pp.P3.4. ⟨hal-00991715⟩