Title :
Polarization mode dispersion and its mitigation in optical networks
Author :
Rochford, Kb ; Gray, Gr ; Veasey, Dl
Author_Institution :
Yafo Networks, Hanover, MD, USA
Abstract :
PMD effects impose severe penalties on older fiber plants at 10Gb/s and on virtually all plants at 40Gb/s. An optical compensator can mitigate these penalties, allowing error-free performance without severely limiting the regenerator distances. A repeatable, calibrated PMD emulator allows thorough testing of a polarisation mode dispersion compensator (PMDC) and the calculation of outage probabilities used by system designers.
Keywords :
compensation; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; optical repeaters; probability; 10 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; PMD effects; calibrated PMD emulator; error-free performance; optical compensator; optical fibre networks; outage probabilities; polarisation mode dispersion compensator; polarization mode dispersion; regenerator distances; system designers; Intelligent networks; Optical distortion; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Polarization mode dispersion; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
All-Optical Networking: Existing and Emerging Architecture and Applications/Dynamic Enablers of Next-Generation Optical Communications Systems/Fast Optical Processing in Optical Transmission/VCSEL and
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7378-2
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2002.1027564
