PMD compensation in 10 Gbit/s NRZ field experiment using polarimetric error signal

Author

Rosenfeldt, H. ; Ulrich, R. ; Feiste, U. ; Ludwig, R. ; Weber, H.G. ; Ehrhardt, A.

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. Hamburg-Harburg, Germany

Volume

36

Issue

5

fYear

2000

fDate

3/2/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

448

Lastpage

450

Abstract

A technique for compensating for the polarisation mode dispersion of a 10 Gbit/s non-return to zero (NRZ) installed fibre link (45 km, 80 ps mean differential group delay): using a variable polarisation delay line and a set of polarisation controllers is presented. The variation of the output polarisation with frequency over the signal bandwidth was monitored using a frequency-resolving Stokes-polarimeter. A control loop is used to minimise the RMS deviation of the polarisation state at the receiver

Keywords

compensation; delays; measurement errors; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical receivers; polarimetry; 10 Gbit/s; 45 km; 80 ps; Gbit/s NRZ field experiment; NRZ installed fibre link; PMD compensation; RMS deviation; control loop; differential group delay; frequency; frequency-resolving Stokes-polarimeter; non-return to zero installed fibre link; output polarisation; polarimetric error signal; polarisation controllers; polarisation mode dispersion compensation; polarisation state; receiver; signal bandwidth; variable polarisation delay line;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:20000343

Filename

840093