Open AccessMinimizing Polarization Multiplexing Angle in Polarization-Division-Multiplexed System
Author(s) -
Lin Jiang,
Lianshan Yan,
Anlin Yi,
Zhiyu Chen,
Yan Pan,
Wei Pan,
Bin Luo,
Xinyu Zhou,
Xia Feng
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
ieee photonics journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1943-0655
pISSN - 1943-0647
DOI - 10.1109/jphot.2016.2544542
Subject(s) - engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , photonics and electrooptics
The minimization of polarization multiplexing angle in a polarization-division-multiplexed (PDM) transmission system is explored. An effective polarization demultiplexing algorithm based on Stokes space is proposed to realize the demultiplexing of two nonorthogonal polarization states. Both simulation and experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm for the transmission of a 56-Gb/s PDM-dual phase-shift keying (DPSK) signal over different polarization multiplexing angles (i.e., θ 1/4 23°, 45°, 67°, 90°) and different lengths of transmission links (i.e., back-to-back, 320 km, 400 km).