Polarization Coupled Carrier Phase Estimation for Coherent Polarization Multiplexed QPSK with OOK-Neighbour

Kittipong Piyawanno, Maxim Kuschnerov, Fabian N. Hauske, Mohammad S. Alfiad, Bernhard Spinnler, Antonio Napoli, Huug de Waardt, Berthold Lankl
2009 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference   unpublished
We propose a novel algorithm for carrier phase estimation with differential demodulation, phase coupling between both polarizations and non-redundant error correction. The algorithm is demonstrated on measured 111Gb/s polarization-multiplexed QPSK with 10x10.7Gb/s OOK neighbours.
doi:10.1364/ofc.2009.omt6 fatcat:u4ijzirjlvftdbwvagr7laijfm