• DocumentCode
    2316698
  • Title

    Pulse distortion induced by combined effects of PMD and PDL in optical transmission systems

  • Author

    Xie, Chao ; Mollenauer, L. ; Moller, L.

  • Author_Institution
    Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    23-28 March 2003
  • Firstpage
    90
  • Abstract
    The combined effects of PMD and PDL on pulse broadening are studied. We show that PDL considerably reduces the efficiency of PMD compensation, due to increased higher order PMD in the presence of PDL.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; optical distortion; optical fibre communication; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; PDL; PMD compensation; optical transmission systems; pulse broadening; pulse distortion; High speed optical techniques; Optical distortion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical losses; Optical pulses; Page description languages; Polarization mode dispersion; Signal to noise ratio; Space vector pulse width modulation; Time division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-746-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2003.1247510
  • Filename
    1247510