Title :
A short recirculating fiber loop testbed with accurate reproduction of Maxwellian PMD statistics
Author :
Lee, S. ; Yu, Q. ; Yan, L.-S. ; Xie, Y. ; Adamezyk, O.H. ; Willner, A.E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
A short recirculating fiber loop (/spl sim/100 km) that can emulate polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) with Maxwellian statistics is realized by loop-synchronous polarization scrambling inside the loop. The performance of our distribution-correct PMD loop is. compared both experimentally and numerically to that of a distribution-incorrect PMD loop.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; statistical analysis; 100 km; Maxwellian PMD statistics; distribution-correct PNM loop; distribution-incorrect PMD loop; loop-synchronous polarization scrambling; short recirculating fiber loop; Circuit testing; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Polarization mode dispersion; Power distribution; Probability distribution; Statistical analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2001. OFC 2001
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-655-9
