title: Experimental demonstration of PDL penalty reduction by wavelength-interleaving transmission.
abstract: Experiments and numerical simulation demonstrate the validity of wavelength-interleaving (WI) transmission for reducing the penalty induced by polarization dependent loss (PDL) through the method of extreme value statistics. It is confirmed that applying the WI technique across n (n>1) channels can effectively reduce PDL-induced Q-penalty or outage probability.
authors.affiliation: NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 1-1 Hikari-no-oka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 239-0847, Japan. shibahara.kouki@lab.ntt.co.jp
authors.forename: Kohki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shibahara
authors.forename: Kazushige
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yonenaga