• DocumentCode
    2987408
  • Title

    Outage vs PMD Tolerance Trade-Off for Fast Polarization Scrambling

  • Author

    Bülow, Henning

  • Author_Institution
    Alcatel Research & Innovation, Holderaeckerstr. 35, D-70499 Stuttgart, Germany, henning.buelow@alcatel.de
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    24-28 Sept. 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A theory for the outages probability of PMD mitigation by fast scrambling has been evaluated. For 42.7 Gbit/s NRZ-ASK the PMD tolerance can be extended with 1e-5 outage from 3.8 to 5.6ps by 5 scramblers.
  • Keywords
    Bit error rate; Error correction; Fasteners; Forward error correction; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Probability density function; Signal to noise ratio; Technological innovation; Transmitters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes, France
  • Print_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2006.4800975
  • Filename
    4800975