Effect of first-order PMD compensation on the statistics of pulse broadening in a fiber with randomly varying birefringence

Author

Mahgerefteh, Daniel ; Menyuk, Curtis R.

Author_Institution

Lab. for Phys. Sci., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

11

Issue

3

fYear

1999

fDate

3/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

340

Lastpage

342

Abstract

Polarization mode dispersion in standard telecommunication fibers can be compensated to first order by using the concept of principal states of polarization. At the receiver the pulse is decomposed into the two waveforms polarized along the two principal states for the optical link and their delay is removed. We show by Monte Carlo simulation that compensation sharpens the probability distribution function of the pulse durations by a factor that decreases with increasing polarization dispersion.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; birefringence; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; optical receivers; probability; Monte Carlo simulation; compensation; delay; fiber; first-order polarization mode dispersion compensation; optical link; polarization dispersion; polarization mode dispersion; principal states; principal states of polarization; probability distribution function; pulse broadening; pulse duration; randomly varying birefringence; receiver; standard telecommunication fibers; statistics; waveforms; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability distribution; Propagation delay; Statistics; Telecommunication standards;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.748228

Filename

748228