Coding Design for Fiber-Optic PolDM Systems Chunpo Pan Supervisor: Prof. Frank Kschischang 1
Introduction Telephone Signal Internet Signal Cable TV Signal On-off keying: spectral efficiency is only 0.8 b/s/Hz! 2
To Increase Spectral Efficiency Noncoherent Detection to Coherent Detection Polarization-Division Multiplexing (PolDM) Im Re Im Re Im Re 3
PolDM Systems in Literatures RZ-DPSK CSRZ-DPSK RZ-DQPSK RZ-8PSK 4
Impairments Nonlinear impairments: Kerr nonlinearity o The higher the intensity, the greater the nonlinearity is o Will induce nonlinear phase noise (NLPN ) Linear impairments: Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) dominates! 5
PMD Slow axis Fast axis 6 Time varying on the scale of milliseconds! Current compensators are complicated and expensive to build.
DPTC without PMD compensation H A unitary matrix! 7 An analogue to wireless MIMO system Wireless System Differential Space- Time Coding (DSTC) PolDM System Differential Polarization-Time Coding (DPTC)
DPTC 8 is a 2x2 unitary group.
Simulation Results 9
10 Standard receiver DPTC 64 points Electronic equalizer Optical PMDC Coherent PolDM-QPSK Digital MLSE