Mitigation of PDL in coherent optical communications: How close to the fundamental limit?

Considering coherent optical transmissions with PDL disturbance, we evaluate how far from the fundamental limit (based on the outage probability) are conventional coding schemes using Polarization-Time codes and/or LDPC codes.

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