Title :
Experimental verification of the penalty produced by polarization effects in fiber recirculating loops
Author :
Lima, I.T., Jr. ; Yan, L.-S. ; Marks, B.S. ; Menyuk, C.R. ; Willner, A.E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstract :
We use optical fiber recirculating loop experiments to validate a reduced Stokes model that allows us to compute the penalty produced by polarization effects in single-channel and wavelength-division multiplexed systems.
Keywords :
optical communication equipment; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; optical fiber recirculating loops; optical fibre penalty; polarization effects; reduced Stokes model; single-channel system; wavelength-division multiplexed systems; Computer science; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber theory; Optical propagation; Page description languages; Power amplifiers; Q factor; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-748-2
