TY - GEN
T1 - Design criterion of polarization-time codes for optical fiber channels
AU - Awwad, Elie
AU - Othman, Ghaya Rekaya Ben
AU - Jaouen, Yves
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - Coherent detection with Polarization Multiplexing (PolMux) is the most promising technique for future optical fiber transmission systems. However, the optical channel suffers from non-unitary impairments known as Polarization Dependent Loss (PDL). Space-Time coding, originally designed for wireless Rayleigh fading channels, was proven to be capable of mitigating PDL. Coding gains of ST codes were evaluated through simulations and experiments that showed differences in their performance on the optical channel and on the wireless channel. In this paper, we derive an upper bound of the pairwise error probability of an optical channel considering the PDL effect. This upper bound explains the performance of ST codes used to mitigate PDL and yields the design criterion that a code should satisfy in order to completely mitigate PDL.
AB - Coherent detection with Polarization Multiplexing (PolMux) is the most promising technique for future optical fiber transmission systems. However, the optical channel suffers from non-unitary impairments known as Polarization Dependent Loss (PDL). Space-Time coding, originally designed for wireless Rayleigh fading channels, was proven to be capable of mitigating PDL. Coding gains of ST codes were evaluated through simulations and experiments that showed differences in their performance on the optical channel and on the wireless channel. In this paper, we derive an upper bound of the pairwise error probability of an optical channel considering the PDL effect. This upper bound explains the performance of ST codes used to mitigate PDL and yields the design criterion that a code should satisfy in order to completely mitigate PDL.
KW - Error Probability
KW - MIMO
KW - Optical Fiber Communication
KW - Polarization Dependent Loss
KW - Polarization-Time Coding
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84891367322
U2 - 10.1109/ICC.2013.6655079
DO - 10.1109/ICC.2013.6655079
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84891367322
SN - 9781467331227
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
SP - 3428
EP - 3432
BT - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2013
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2013
Y2 - 9 June 2013 through 13 June 2013
ER -