Abstract
We demonstrate a direct detection scheme for a 107-Gb/s polarization-multiplexed return-to-zero DQPSK signal, featuring automatic polarization de-multiplexing in the electronic domain without polarization tracking. The required OSNR for BER=10−3 was measured to be ~21 dB.
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