DocumentCode
788783
Title
WDM system impairments due to highly-correlated PMD spectra of buried optical cables
Author
Caponi, R. ; Riposati, B. ; Rossaro, A. ; Schiano, M.
Author_Institution
Telecom Italia Lab., Torino, Italy
Volume
38
Issue
14
fYear
2002
fDate
7/4/2002 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
737
Lastpage
738
Abstract
Repeated polarisation mode dispersion measurements on a buried cable show a strong correlation between differential group delay spectra measured at 24 h intervals. Based on experimental data, the mean outage rate and time are calculated
Keywords
optical cables; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM system; buried optical cable; differential group delay spectra; outage rate; polarisation mode dispersion;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20020471
Filename
1019881
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