Penalties induced by higher-order PMD at 10 Gbit/s in nondispersion-shifted fibers

Author

Bruyère, F. ; Pierre, L. ; Thiery, J.P. ; Clesca, B.

Author_Institution

Alcatel Alsthom Recherche, Marcoussis, France

fYear

1997

Firstpage

113

Lastpage

114

Abstract

In a recently published work see, Electron. Lett., vol.31, p.1597, 1995; we have demonstrated theoretically that in nondispersion-shifted fibers, second-order polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) can severely compound the PMD penalty as a result of first-order PMD [i.e., the value of the differential group delay (DGD) at the signal central frequency]. To verify these theoretical results, a l0-Gbit/s nonreturn to zero (NRZ) transmission was set up over a 70 km nondispersion-shifted fiber with a chromatic dispersion near 1550 nm. The l0-Gbit/s transmitter consisted of a modulated DFB laser

Keywords

distributed feedback lasers; electro-optical modulation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; 10 Gbit/s; 1550 nm; 70 km; Gbit/s nonreturn to zero fibre transmission; Gbit/s transmitter; PMD penalty; chromatic dispersion; differential group delay; electro optical modulation; first-order PMD; higher-order PMD; modulated DFB laser diode; nondispersion-shifted fiber; nondispersion-shifted fibers; second-order polarization-mode dispersion; signal central frequency; Chromatic dispersion; Delay; Electrons; Fiber lasers; Filtering theory; Frequency; Optical fiber polarization; Optical signal processing; Polarization mode dispersion; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

1-55752-480-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1997.719740

Filename

719740