Title :
Measurement of dispersion-compensating module polarization-mode dispersion statistics
Author :
Chowdhury, Dipak Q. ; Murphy, Edward F. ; Brarens, Eugene J. ; Jackson, LeRoy H. ; Cattetow, Jeremy
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Optoelectron., Corning Inc., NY, USA
Abstract :
Dispersion-compensating modules (DCMs) are increasingly used to increase span length and number of spans in long-haul optical communication systems. Conventional DCMs contain long lengths of fiber. Consequently, it is not obvious that polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) of DCMs can be treated similarly as PMD for a simple birefringent element. In this presentation, we show measured statistical distribution of PMD and corresponding concatenation rules with other fibers and DCMs. The difficulties of exploring the tail of PMD distribution for DCMs and its implication on PMD budget for DCMs are also discussed
Keywords :
optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; statistical analysis; C-clamp; Maxwellian distribution; concatenation rules; dispersion-compensating module; long-haul optical communication systems; number of spans; polarization-mode dispersion statistics; single-mode optical fiber; span length; statistical distribution; Birefringence; Length measurement; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; Q measurement; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-480-7
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.1997.719872
