Comparisons on PMD-Compensation Feedback Signals for Bit-to- Bit Alternate-Polarization RZ-DPSK

22 March 2009

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PMD compensation for 40Gb/s Apol RZ-DPSK is successfully demonstrated using different feedback methods. Eye-opening feedback exhibits the lowest penalty. Experiments indicate a mean PMD tolerance of 5.3 ps for an outage probability of 10-5.