• DocumentCode
    2013694
  • Title

    Estimation of eye penalty and PMD from frequency-resolved in-situ SOP measurements

  • Author

    Boroditsky, Misha ; Brodsky, Misha ; Frigo, Nicholas J. ; Magill, Peter ; Evankow, Joe

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Labs. Res., Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    7-11 Nov. 2004
  • Firstpage
    88
  • Abstract
    We introduce frequency-resolved in-situ measurements of the output state-of-polarization ´strings´ of an optical signal in operating 10 Gb/s channels, and show they permit estimation of the PMD-induced eye penalty, but, paradoxically, not the PMD vector itself.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; 10 Gbit/s; PMD; eye penalty estimation; frequency-resolved measurements; in-situ SOP measurements; optical telecommunication systems; output state-of-polarization; Frequency estimation; Frequency measurement; High speed optical techniques; Optical feedback; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Radio frequency;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8557-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363124
  • Filename
    1363124