title: Statistics and performance under combined impairments induced by polarization-dependent-loss in polarization-division-multiplexing digital coherent transmission.
abstract: Two-dimensional statistics and Q-penalty performance under the combination of two major impairments induced by polarization-dependent loss, namely level imbalance and loss of orthogonality between polarization-multiplexed tributaries, for a polarization-division-multiplexing digital coherent transmission at over 100-Gb/s are presented for the first time to estimate the outage probability needed for designing the system.
authors.affiliation: NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 1-1 Hikari-no-oka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 2390847, Japan. mori.kunihiko@lab.ntt.co.jp
authors.forename: Kunihiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: Tomoyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kataoka
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Shingo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kawai