Polarization Dependence of Linear In-Band Crosstalk in Multipoint-to-Point Networks

Author

Baekelandt, Bart ; Mélange, Cedric ; Bauwelinck, Johan ; Ossieur, Peter ; De Ridder, Tine ; Qiu, Xing-Zhi ; Vandewege, Jan ; Talli, Giuseppe

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Ghent

Volume

21

Issue

6

fYear

2009

fDate

3/15/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

398

Lastpage

400

Abstract

This letter studies the influence of random polarization on in-band crosstalk caused by residual output power in high split long reach wavelength/time-division-multiplexing passive optical networks. Based on a statistical description of polarization, statistics of network performance are deduced, and it is shown that a significant reduction in requirements for the maximum allowable interburst residual output power is obtained if the bit-error rate (BER) is allowed to fall short of the required BER for a few seconds per annum.

Keywords

error statistics; light polarisation; optical crosstalk; optical fibre networks; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; BER; bit-error rate; linear in-band crosstalk; multipoint-to-point networks; residual output power; time-division-multiplexing passive optical networks; wavelength division-multiplexing passive optical networks; Optical crosstalk; optical fiber communication; polarization; wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2009.2012410

Filename

4770144