Independently tunable first- and second-order polarization-mode dispersion emulator

Author

Kim, Na Young ; Park, Namkyoo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Seoul Nat. Univ., South Korea

Volume

17

Issue

3

fYear

2005

fDate

3/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

576

Lastpage

578

Abstract

By solving the equation set for the first- and second-order polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) in retro-verse manner, we show that the independent control of first- and second-order PMD is possible, with only two control parameters. The analysis on the emulation algorithm as well as the operation range/resolution shows excellent agreement with the experimental demonstration operated with a sample emulator constructed of a fixed differential group delay (DGD), a polarization rotator, and a variable-DGD element.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical tuning; physics computing; differential group delay; emulation algorithm; first-order polarization mode dispersion; independent control; independently tunable emulator; optical fiber communications; polarization rotator; retroverse calculation; second-order polarization mode dispersion; variable-DGD element; Algorithm design and analysis; Communication system control; Delay; Emulation; Equations; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Performance analysis; Polarization mode dispersion; Student members; Optical fiber communications; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD); polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) emulator;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.842318

Filename

1396019