A dynamical polarization mode dispersion emulator

Author

Waddy, David S. ; Chen, Liang ; Bao, Xiaoyi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

15

Issue

4

fYear

2003

fDate

4/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

534

Lastpage

536

Abstract

A polarization mode dispersion (PMD) emulator is presented which accurately follows the dynamics of PMD in field optical fiber. A modification on a dynamic mode coupling wave-plate model is presented to model the emulator. It is found that the emulator and model can accurately describe the dynamical behavior of the state of polarization and thus PMD in a field fiber. The emulator is shown to be repeatable. Generally, the dynamical PMD emulator is shown to cause more realistic bit-error-rate degradation than a classical PMD emulator.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; bit-error-rate degradation; dynamic mode coupling waveplate model; dynamical behavior; dynamical polarization mode dispersion emulator; field fiber; field optical fiber; optical fibre communication; state of polarization; Birefringence; Degradation; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical fiber theory; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.809259

Filename

1190194