Experimental demonstration of the system performance degradation due to the combined effect of polarization-dependent loss with polarization-mode dispersion

Author

Yan, L.-S. ; Yu, Q. ; Xie, Y. ; Willner, A.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

14

Issue

2

fYear

2002

Firstpage

224

Lastpage

226

Abstract

The combined effect of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) and polarization-dependent loss (PDL) is investigated experimentally using a recirculating fiber-loop testbed for 10-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero transmissions over an 800-km fiber link. We find that the PDL of inline components combined with the link PMD will increase the penalty distribution. As the average link PDL varies from 1.0 to 2.1 dB with an average PMD of 18 ps, the system penalty distribution tail at 2% probability increases from 2.5 to 4.3 dB.

Keywords

Gaussian distribution; Monte Carlo methods; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; 1.0 to 2.1 dB; 10 Gbit/s; 800 km; ASE noise; Gaussian distribution; Monte Carlo simulation; Q-factor; fiber link; fiber polarization effects; inline components; nonreturn-to-zero transmissions; penalty distribution; polarization-dependent loss; polarization-mode dispersion; probability distribution; recirculating fiber-loop testbed; signal propagation; system performance degradation; Degradation; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical filters; Optical losses; Page description languages; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability distribution; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.980529

Filename

980529