Title :
Ultra high-speed, multi-wavelength polarization ompairment characterization technique for pol-muxed optical links
Author :
Gupta, S. ; Saperstein, R.E. ; Huang, Y.-K. ; Ji, P.N. ; Dogariu, A. ; Wang, T.
Abstract :
We introduce a technique to monitor the polarization dependent impairments in optical links at tens of MHz speeds. Experimentally, we capture up to 10 ps PMD values for 5.8-nm optical bandwidth at 36 MHz refresh rates.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; multiplexing; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; PMD; bandwidth 36 MHz; multiwavelength polarization impairment characterization; pol-muxed optical link; ultra high-speed technique; Bandwidth; High speed optical techniques; Monitoring; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Ultrafast optics; (060.2270) Fiber characterization; (260.5430) Polarization; (320.1590) Chirping; (320.7100) Ultrafast measurements;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2606-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-865-0
