PMD simulations and interferometric measurements

Author

Pilinsky, Sonja Zentner ; Jurdana, Irena

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept, Univ. of Rijeka, Rijeka

fYear

2007

fDate

24-26 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is one of the major limitations in high speed communication links. Thus, it is very important to measure PMD of fiber in high speed networks, specialy in the case when upgrading speed of the network with older fibers. In order to get better insight in PMD we developed simulation program for simulating PMD during linear and nonlinear propagation of pulses in the fiber. In the paper we give some simulation results, describe in detail interferometric measurement method for measuring PMD and give some measurement results. Measurements were made on Croatian Telecom links consisting of old fibers.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; light interferometry; nonlinear optics; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; Croatian Telecom link; PMD simulation; high speed communication link; interferometric measurement; nonlinear propagation; polarization mode dispersion; Birefringence; Couplings; Nonlinear equations; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics and Communications, 2007. ICECom 2007. 19th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dubrovnik

Print_ISBN

978-953-6037-50-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-953-6037-51-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECOM.2007.4544479

Filename

4544479