Characterization of Real-Time PMD and Chromatic Dispersion Monitoring in a High-PMD 46-Gb/s Transmission System

Author

Woodward, S.L. ; Nelson, L.E. ; Feuer, M.D. ; Zhou, X. ; Magill, P.D. ; Foo, S. ; Hanson, D. ; Sun, H. ; Moyer, M. ; Sullivan, M.O.

Author_Institution

AT&T Labs.-Res., Middletown, NJ

Volume

20

Issue

24

fYear

2008

Firstpage

2048

Lastpage

2050

Abstract

We demonstrate performance monitoring based on the electronic compensation provided within a dual-polarization quadrature-phase-shift-keyed coherent receiver. Measurements were made over an 8 times 100-km system with distributed high polarization-mode-dispersion fiber. A laboratory demonstration of in-service monitoring was completed over a ten-day period.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical receivers; bit rate 46 Gbit/s; chromatic dispersion; chromatic dispersion monitoring; coherent receiver; dual-polarization quadrature-phase-shift-keyed coherent receiver; electronic compensation; high polarization-mode-dispersion fiber; optical performance monitoring; real-time polarization-mode dispersion; Chromatic dispersion (CD); coherent receiver; optical performance monitoring; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2008.2006189

Filename

4663558