• DocumentCode
    1833972
  • Title

    Experimental comparison of system penalties due to 1st order and multi-order polarization mode dispersion

  • Author

    Cornick, Kate ; Boroditsky, Misha ; Frigo, Nicholas J. ; Brodsky, Misha ; Dods, Sarah ; Magill, Peter

  • Author_Institution
    AT&TLabs- Res., Middletown, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    5
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    6-11 March 2005
  • Abstract
    Using vectorially resolved launch SOP, we show that high order PMD, present in real fibers, introduces a deterministic correction to the accepted first-order system penalty, and an additional uniformly distributed scatter, uncorrelated to the second order PMD vector.
  • Keywords
    light scattering; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; deterministic correction; first-order system penalty; high order PMD; multi-order polarization mode dispersion; system penalties; uniformly distributed scatter; vectorially resolved launch SOP; Frequency; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical scattering; Polarization mode dispersion; Tunable circuits and devices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-783-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2005.193103
  • Filename
    1499696