Title :
PMD monitoring in traffic-carrying optical systems
Author :
Jiang, Junfeng ; Sundhararajan, S. ; Richards, Doug ; Oliva, Steve ; O´Sullivan, Maurice ; Hui, Rongqing
Author_Institution :
Dept. EECS, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Abstract :
DGD was monitored in in-service terrestrial optical fiber systems for the first time without the requirement of looping-back. The relationship between the measured DGD and the actual fiber PMD parameter is formulated and verified.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; differential group delay; fiber polarization-mode dispersion parameter; in-service terrestrial optical fiber systems; looping-back; polarization-mode dispersion monitoring; traffic-carrying optical systems; Local oscillators; Monitoring; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; Radio frequency; Rotation measurement; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brussels
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2227-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2228-9
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729360
