TR2015-088

Trellis-Coded High-Dimensional Modulation for Polarization Crosstalk Self Cancellation in Coherent Optical Communications

    •  Koike-Akino, T., Kojima, K., Parsons, K., "Trellis-Coded High-Dimensional Modulation for Polarization Crosstalk Self Cancellation in Coherent Optical Communications", Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom), DOI: 10.1364/​SPPCOM.2015.SpS3D.6, July 2015.
      BibTeX TR2015-088 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2015jul1,
      • author = {Koike-Akino, T. and Kojima, K. and Parsons, K.},
      • title = {Trellis-Coded High-Dimensional Modulation for Polarization Crosstalk Self Cancellation in Coherent Optical Communications},
      • booktitle = {Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)},
      • year = 2015,
      • month = jul,
      • doi = {10.1364/SPPCOM.2015.SpS3D.6},
      • isbn = {978-1-55752-000-5},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2015-088}
      • }
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    Communications, Signal Processing

Abstract:

We propose new trellis-coded high-dimensional modulation robust to polarization crosstalk in coherent optical communications. Since the modulation can automatically recover polarization crosstalk, it offers 2 dBQ improvement with blind equalization.