DOP ellipsoids for systems with frequency-dependent principal states

Author

Sylla, P.M. ; Richardson, C.J.K. ; VanLeeuwen, M. ; Saylors, M. ; Goldhar, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

13

Issue

12

fYear

2001

Firstpage

1310

Lastpage

1312

Abstract

The effects of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in optical communication systems limit the practical length of fiber optic links. Characterization of the PMD of an optical system can be performed by observing the surface obtained from the vector whose length is the degree of polarization and direction is defined by the output state of polarization for a randomly varying input polarization. An analytical solution to the ellipsoid is derived for a simple higher order PMD system that is composed of two polarization-maintaining fibers. An approximate inverse relationship between the ellipsoid radii and the first- and second-order components of the PMD vector is also derived.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; DOP ellipsoids; analytical solution; approximate inverse relationship; degree of polarization; degree of polarization ellipsoid; ellipsoid; ellipsoid radii; fiber optic links; first-order components; frequency-dependent principal states; optical communication systems; optical system; output state; output state polarization; polarization mode dispersion; polarization mode dispersion vector; polarization-maintaining fibers; practical length; randomly varying input polarization; randomly varying polarization; second-order components; simple higher order polarization mode dispersion system; surface; vector; Birefringence; Ellipsoids; Frequency; Monitoring; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Polarization mode dispersion; Transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.969891

Filename

969891