Noise Property and Optimum Electronic PMD Compensation for Strongly/Weakly Optically Filtered Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK) Modulation

23 March 2003

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Optical noise for DPSK becomes pseudo-thermal, making LMS optimum for electronic PMD compensation (EP-MDC). Monte Carlo simulation demonstrates that EPMDC can compensate large PMD and reduce significantly penalty induced by strong filtering at high PMD.