Orthogonal polarization modulation based fully coherent self-heterodyne detection for future UDWDM-PON

Abstract

A fully coherent optical communication link using orthogonal polarization modulation based self-heterodyne detection is proposed and experimentally demonstrated where the local oscillator optical source and phase estimation algorithm need not be employed at the receiver. OPM based self-heterodyne detection scheme for fully coherent optical communication link was proposed and experimentally demonstrated.