Title :
Effect of first-order PMD compensation on the statistics of pulse broadening in a fiber with randomly varying birefringence
Author :
Mahgerefteh, Daniel ; Menyuk, Curtis R.
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Phys. Sci., College Park, MD, USA
fDate :
3/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Polarization mode dispersion in standard telecommunication fibers can be compensated to first order by using the concept of principal states of polarization. At the receiver the pulse is decomposed into the two waveforms polarized along the two principal states for the optical link and their delay is removed. We show by Monte Carlo simulation that compensation sharpens the probability distribution function of the pulse durations by a factor that decreases with increasing polarization dispersion.
Keywords :
Monte Carlo methods; birefringence; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; optical receivers; probability; Monte Carlo simulation; compensation; delay; fiber; first-order polarization mode dispersion compensation; optical link; polarization dispersion; polarization mode dispersion; principal states; principal states of polarization; probability distribution function; pulse broadening; pulse duration; randomly varying birefringence; receiver; standard telecommunication fibers; statistics; waveforms; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability distribution; Propagation delay; Statistics; Telecommunication standards;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
