DocumentCode
1895805
Title
Polarisation effects in TAT12
Author
Lord, Andrew
Author_Institution
BT Labs., Ipswich, UK
fYear
1996
fDate
35149
Firstpage
42522
Lastpage
42526
Abstract
Polarisation effects such as polarisation dependent loss (PDL), polarisation dependent gain (PDG) and polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) give rise to serious degradations on unoptimised long span optical transmission systems. The operation of TAT12 with an adequate margin was only possible after careful system design, minimising the degradations caused by these three polarisation effects. This paper describes the three phenomena and the penalties caused by them
Keywords
optical cables; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; submarine cables; TAT12; degradations; long span optical transmission systems; polarisation dependent gain; polarisation dependent loss; polarisation effects; polarisation mode dispersion; system design;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Transoceanic Cable Communications - TAT 12 and 13 Herald a New Era , IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location
London
Type
conf
DOI
10.1049/ic:19960447
Filename
543444
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