Title :
Excess penalty impairments of polarisation shift keying transmission format in presence of polarisation mode dispersion
Author :
Lepley, J.J. ; Ellison, J.G. ; Edirisinghe, S.G. ; Siddiqui, A.S. ; Walker, S.D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK
fDate :
4/13/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Experimental results are presented which show that in a fibre link with polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) the polarisation shift keying (PolSK) transmission format suffers from an excess sensitivity penalty due to signal depolarisation when compared with the intensity modulated format. The excess penalty is 3 dB when the PMD is 30% of the bit period
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; bit period; excess penalty impairments; fibre link; intensity modulated format; polarisation mode dispersion; polarisation shift keying transmission format; sensitivity penalty; signal depolarisation; transmission format;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20000551
