Multi-impairments monitoring from the equalizer in a digital coherent optical receiver

We propose a simple and precise algorithm to monitor multiple impairments such as CD, PMD, and PDL, which are jointly mitigated in the adaptive equalizer of a digital coherent optical receiver. We validate our algorithm by dual-polarization QPSK transmission experiments.

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