A fiber-optic transmission system based on differential polarization-shift keying

A differential polarization-shift keying (DPolSK) scheme in which information is encoded as a differential polarization state with respect to the previous symbol is considered. A novel DPolSK demodulator consisting of optical delay interferometer and a pair of birefringence plates that do polarization rotation are proposed. Numerical simulations of the long haul fiber-optic systems based on differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) and DPolSK are …