• DocumentCode
    1960048
  • Title

    Simplified approach for the assessment of the performance of optical systems with polarisation dependent loss

  • Author

    Rebola, João L. ; Cartaxo, Adolfo V T

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Sci. & Inf. Technol., Inst. Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    3-7 July 2005
  • Firstpage
    189
  • Abstract
    A simplified formulation to assess the performance of an optical receiver, which takes into account the impact of polarisation dependent loss (PDL) on the signal mean and signal-beat noise variance, is proposed. Exact expressions for the mean and variance of the receiver output current in presence of partially polarised noise due to PDL are presented. The receiver performance is evaluated through the Q-factor and its dependence on the angle between signal and noise polarisations and on the noise degree of polarisation is assessed.
  • Keywords
    Q-factor; light polarisation; optical receivers; Q-factor; noise polarisations; optical receiver; optical systems assessment; optical systems performance; polarisation dependent loss; signal-beat noise variance; Filtering theory; Gaussian noise; Optical filters; Optical losses; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Page description languages; Performance loss; Photodetectors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Transparent Optical Networks, 2005, Proceedings of 2005 7th International Conference
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9236-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTON.2005.1506130
  • Filename
    1506130