Abstract

We propose a simple and novel solution for 40G and higher rate optical transport. It elaborately employs state of polarization without relying on complicated receiver structures, such as Stokes receivers, polarization controllers. By altering both polarizations and phase of lightwave, it can increase the spectral efficiency. As a constant power modulation format and an alternative polarization modulation format, D-mPSK-PolSK is highly tolerant to fiber nonlinearity.

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