PMD-induced crosstalk in the presence of polarization scrambling

Author

Park, K.J. ; Youn, C.J. ; Lee, J.H. ; Chung, Y.C.

Author_Institution

i-Networking Lab., Samsung Adv. Inst. of Technol., Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea

Volume

16

Issue

11

fYear

2004

Firstpage

2580

Lastpage

2582

Abstract

We report on the polarization-mode dispersion (PMD)-induced crosstalk in the presence of polarization scrambling. When the polarization scrambling was used, PMD could generate unwanted intensity modulation and degrade receiver sensitivity. The results showed that, even when the differential group delay was only 10 ps, the bit-synchronous polarization scrambling could increase the power penalty up to 1 dB for 10-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero signal.

Keywords

intensity modulation; optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical receivers; 10 Gbit/s; 10 ps; PMD-induced crosstalk; bit-synchronous polarization scrambling; differential group delay; intensity modulation; polarization mode dispersion; power penalty; receiver sensitivity degradation; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Intensity modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical crosstalk; Optical feedback; Optical fiber polarization; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical polarization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.834917

Filename

1344107