XPM-induced polarization-state fluctuations in WDM systems and their mitigation

Author

Pan, Z. ; Yu, Q. ; Willner, A.E. ; Arieli, Y.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

379

Lastpage

381

Abstract

In this paper, we show numerically and experimentally the degradation caused by cross phase modulation (XPM) in systems that use PMD compensators, as well as demonstrate a modulation scheme for mitigating this problem. We use a simple and effective model to evaluate this problem. We show the quantity of XPM-induced polarization-state fluctuations and induced system penalty for different conditions. In order to overcome this problem, we propose and demonstrate a novel intra-bit polarization modulation (IPDM) format.

Keywords

compensation; fluctuations; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; phase modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; PMD compensators; WDM system; XPM degradation; XPM-induced polarization-state fluctuations; cross phase modulation; induced system penalty; intra-bit polarization modulation format; modulation scheme; Birefringence; Feedback loop; Fiber nonlinear optics; Fluctuations; Nonlinear optics; Optical feedback; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Probes; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036430

Filename

1036430