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.
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@article{arxiv.2010.15496,
title = {Experimental validation of MDL emulation and estimation techniques for SDM transmission systems},
author = {Menno van den Hout and Ruby S. B. Ospina and Sjoerd van der Heide and Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias and Jose Enrique Antonio-López and Marianne Bigot-Astruc and Adrian Amezcua Correa and Pierre Sillard and Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa and Darli A. A. Mello and Chigo Okonkwo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15496},
year = {2021}
}
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Accepted for presentation at European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) 2020