Title :
PMD and PDL monitoring of traffic-carrying transatlantic fibre-optic system
Author :
Jiang, Jianliang ; Richards, Donald ; Oliva, S. ; Green, P. ; Hui, R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Abstract :
For the first time the direct monitoring of polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) and polarisation-dependent loss (PDL) in a traffic-carrying transatlantic fibre-optic system without the requirement of looping-back is reported. The impact of transmitter polarisation scrambling in the measured results is analysed and verified by the measured results.
Keywords :
optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; polarisation mode dispersion monitoring; polarisation-dependent loss monitoring; transatlantic fibre-optic system; transmitter polarisation;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20092526
