The effects of XPM-induced fast polarization-state fluctuations on PMD compensated WDM systems

Author

Pan, Z. ; Yu, Q. ; Arieli, Y. ; Willner, A.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, USA

Volume

16

Issue

8

fYear

2004

Firstpage

1963

Lastpage

1965

Abstract

We show numerically and experimentally the system degradation caused by cross-phase modulation-induced fast polarization fluctuations in wavelength-division-multiplexing systems that use polarization-mode dispersion compensation. A simple pump-probe model is used to investigate this effect and a technique is proposed to mitigate this problem. For a 10-Gb/s system with a 40-ps differential group delay compensator, the significant improvement is achieved over standard systems by using this technology.

Keywords

compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; phase modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 40 ps; PMD compensation; WDM systems; XPM; cross-phase modulation; differential group delay compensator; polarization state fluctuations; polarization-mode dispersion compensation; pump-probe model; Birefringence; Degradation; Delay; Fiber nonlinear optics; Fluctuations; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Polarization mode dispersion; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.831288

Filename

1316982