Experimental validation of MDL emulation and estimation techniques for SDM transmission systems
arXiv:2010.15496 · doi:10.1109/ECOC48923.2020.9333412
Abstract
We experimentally validate a mode-dependent loss (MDL) estimation technique employing acorrection factor to remove the MDL estimation dependence on the SNR when using a minimum meansquare error (MMSE) equalizer. A reduction of the MDL estimation error is observed for both transmitter-side and in-span MDL emulation.
Accepted for presentation at European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) 2020