Performance of turbo equalizers for optical PMD channels

This paper investigates the performance of iterative (turbo) equalization to mitigate the effects of a polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) in nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) intensity-modulated optical-fiber transmission systems. A PMD can lead to severe distortions in the received electrical signal and is a...

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Vydáno v:Journal of lightwave technology Ročník 24; číslo 3; s. 1226 - 1236
Hlavní autoři: Jager, M., Rankl, T., Speidel, J., Henning Bulow, Buchali, F.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York, NY IEEE 01.03.2006
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ISSN:0733-8724, 1558-2213
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Shrnutí:This paper investigates the performance of iterative (turbo) equalization to mitigate the effects of a polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) in nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) intensity-modulated optical-fiber transmission systems. A PMD can lead to severe distortions in the received electrical signal and is a key limiter for the development of high-bit-rate transmission over currently used fibers. In order to reduce the distortions due to a PMD, the performance of symbol-by-symbol maximum a posteriori (sbs-MAP) soft-in/soft-out (SISO) decoders is studied. The SISO algorithms are adapted to the noise statistics of the optical channel where the photo detector leads to a non-Gaussian signal-dependent noise at the receiver side. The modified SISO algorithms are successfully employed for turbo equalization and results show that iterative (turbo) equalization and decoding for the compensation of a PMD can lead to a tremendous reduction in the bit error ratio (BER). Moreover, it is shown that, due to the robustness of mutual information, the extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) chart can be applied for the design of iterative receivers in optical transmission systems even with a non-Gaussian noise
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ISSN:0733-8724
1558-2213
DOI:10.1109/JLT.2005.863281