Novel feed-forward polarization tracking is proposed using differential detection of the X and Y polarizations. An experiment showed that the proposed method mitigated 2.6 dB penalty caused by 10 MHz polarization rotation for 43G DP-QPSK.
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Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Date of Conference: 4-8 March 2012