Title :
Effects of SPM and PMD on chromatic dispersion monitoring techniques using pilot tones
Author_Institution :
KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
We investigated the effects of SPM and PMD on chromatic dispersion monitoring techniques using pilot tones. The technique based on phase-modulated pilot tones is relatively insensitive to SPM and PMD, thus provides superior performance to technique using amplitude-modulated pilot tones.
Keywords :
amplitude modulation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; self-phase modulation; PMD effects; SPM effects; amplitude-modulated pilot tones; chromatic dispersion monitoring techniques; phase-modulated pilot tones; Chromatic dispersion; Clocks; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Monitoring; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Phase detection; Polarization mode dispersion; Scanning probe microscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1248299