Effects of PMD with random mode coupling on 2.48 Gb/s IM-DD lightwave systems

Author

Prola, C.H. ; Da Silva, J. A Pereira ; Dal Forno, A.O. ; Passy, R. ; Von Der Weid, J.P.

Author_Institution

Centre for Telecommun. Studies, Pontificia Univ. Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Volume

2

fYear

1997

Firstpage

687

Abstract

Effects of Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) on 2.48 Gb/s IM-DD lightwave systems are experimentally observed by using PMD emulators made with segments of highly birefringent fiber with random mode coupling splices. Random birefringence between mode couplings was also included in the emulator. The measurements indicate that the eye diagram is corrupted by PMD values above 10 ps. BER measurements show more than 1.5 dB power penalty for PMD values of 30 ps

Keywords

Gaussian distribution; birefringence; digital communication; error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; 2.48 Gbit/s; BER measurements; IM-DD lightwave systems; PMD emulators; bit error rate; eye diagram corruption; highly birefringent fiber; polarization mode dispersion; random birefringence; random mode coupling splices; Birefringence; Optical coupling; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Polarization mode dispersion; Signal analysis; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 1997. Linking to the Next Century. Proceedings., 1997 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Natal

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4165-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBMOMO.1997.648862

Filename

648862