Effects of polarization dependent loss and polarization mode dispersion in recirculating loops

Author

Carter, Gary M. ; Xu, Hai ; Jiao, Hua ; Sun, Yu ; Marks, Brian ; Yan, Li

Author_Institution

Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

322

Abstract

This study demonstrates detailed experiments and modeling on the effects of polarization dependent loss (PDL) and polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in recirculating loops. Experimental results and modeling show that the Q distribution is affected by noise which is partially polarized due to the PDL. Due to polarization dependence of the gain (PDG) in erbium doped finer amplifiers (EDFA), single channel experiments require input scrambling to eliminate this effect. Due to gain saturation in an EDFA chain the input scrambling rate can be chosen to eliminate unwanted amplitude modulation.

Keywords

erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; Q distribution; amplitude modulation; erbium doped finer amplifiers; gain saturation; input scrambling rate; polarization dependent loss; polarization mode dispersion; recirculating loops; Bit error rate; Delay; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical fiber theory; Optical polarization; Page description languages; Polarization mode dispersion; Q factor; Sun;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7888-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2003.1251775

Filename

1251775