Mitigation of polarization mode dispersion

Author

Chbat, Michel W.

Author_Institution

Div. of Opt. Div., Alcatel USA, Richardson, TX, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

151

Abstract

There is a need for PMD mitigation. The increasing demand for bandwidth is driving most telecommunication operators toward the deployment of large capacity transmission systems. For distances of 300km or longer, 20% of the installed fiber plant is not suitable for 10 Gb/s transmission, and 75% is not suitable for 40 Gb/s. This observation, however imprecise, shows that present and future transmission systems on the embedded fiber plant will greatly benefit from a reduction of the PMD effect, in order to upgrade the system capacity and expand the distance between regenerators

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical repeaters; 10 Gbit/s; 300 km; 40 Gbit/s; Gb/s transmission; PMD mitigation; embedded fiber plant; future transmission systems; installed fiber plant; large capacity transmission systems; polarization mode dispersion mitigation; regenerator distance; system capacity; telecommunication operators; Bandwidth; Decision feedback equalizers; Delay; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Phase detection; Polarization mode dispersion; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5634-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1999.813522

Filename

813522