A technique for characterization and visualization of PMD

Author

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

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

476

Abstract

Summary form only given. Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is a limiting factor for higher bit rate in optical transmission lines. Due to the complexity of calculating the complete set of PMD parameters a simple representation is needed before real time PMD compensation can be realized. We used several broadband sources such as a multimode Fabry-Perot laser, ASE from an EDFA and 10 Gb/s NRZ data carried on a modulated CW source. A scanning polarization controller varies the input state of polarization of the source uniformly on the Poincare sphere at the input of the fiber transmission line under test. At the output, we use a HP8509B polarization analyzer to record the output state of polarization and the degree of polarization (DOP) as a function of time.

Keywords

compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; polarimetry; 10 Gbit/s; ASE; EDFA; HP8509B polarization analyzer; NRZ data; Poincare sphere; broadband sources; characterization techniques; degree of polarization; fiber transmission line; input state of polarization; modulated CW source; multimode Fabry-Perot laser; optical transmission lines; output state of polarization; polarization mode dispersion; real time PMD compensation; scanning polarization controller; visualization; Bit rate; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fabry-Perot; Fiber lasers; Laser modes; Optical fiber polarization; Optical signal processing; Polarization mode dispersion; Transmission lines; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.948063

Filename

948063