• DocumentCode
    2333202
  • Title

    Automated polarization control demonstrated in a 1.28 Tbit/s (16×2×40 Gbit/s) polarization multiplexed DWDM field trial

  • Author

    Hecker, N.E. ; Gottwald, E. ; Kotten, K. ; Weiske, C.-J. ; Schopflin, A. ; Krummrich, P.M. ; Glingener, C.

  • Author_Institution
    Opt. Networks, Adv. Technol., Siemens AG, Munich, Germany
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    86
  • Abstract
    We have demonstrated automatic polarization control in a field trial over 116 km of SSMF with 16 channel DWDM (100 GHz spacing) based on polarization multiplexed 2×40 Gbit/s NRZ signals for a total capacity of 1.28 Tbit/s after FEC decoding.
  • Keywords
    data communication; optical fibre polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.28 Tbit/s; 100 GHz; FEC decoding; SSMF; automated polarization control; fiber optic data transmission; polarization multiplexed DWDM field trial; polarization multiplexed NRZ signals; wavelength division multiplexing; Automatic control; Decoding; Demultiplexing; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Forward error correction; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical signal processing; Signal generators; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6705-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2001.989444
  • Filename
    989444