Abstract
Turbulence-induced fading in free-space transmission of optical RZ-QPSK can be mitigated in homodyne detection via delay-diversity. A SNR gain of 2.6 dB is obtained using orthogonal polarizations with delay comparable to the turbulence correlation time.
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