PMD-Induced Outage Probability in an Optical Communication System With Fast Polarization Scramblers and Time-Varying PMD Sections

Author

Xie, Chongjin ; Liu, Xiang ; Bülow, Henning

Author_Institution

Bell Lab., Bell

Volume

20

Issue

6

fYear

2008

fDate

3/15/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

440

Lastpage

442

Abstract

Polarization-mode-dispersion (PMD) tolerance of an optical communication system with distributed fast polarization scramblers (PS´s) and time-varying PMD sections in terms of outage probability (OP) is investigated. We show that with a moderate number of PS´s (up to 14), the PMD mitigation technique using distributed fast PS´s and a typical forward-error correction increases the PMD tolerance by up to ~50% at an OP of 10^-5. We provide a scaling rule to link the PMD tolerance in the system with fixed PMD sections to that with time-varying PMD sections. The implication of the Hinge model is briefly discussed.

Keywords

forward error correction; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; probability; Hinge model; distributed fast polarization scramblers; forward-error correction; optical communication system; outage probability; polarization-mode-dispersion tolerance; scaling rule; Bit error rate; Delay effects; Fasteners; Optical fiber communication; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Propagation delay; Stochastic systems; System performance; Time varying systems; Forward-error correction (FEC); polarization- mode dispersion (PMD); polarization-mode-dispersion (PMD) mitigation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2008.916944

Filename

4455670