Title :
Measurement of mean fiber DGD using asynchronous delay-tap sampling
Author :
Anderson, Trevor B. ; Clarke, Ken ; Dods, Sarah D. ; Li, Jonathan C. ; Pillai, Bipin S Gopalakrishna ; Nelson, Lynn ; Birk, Martin ; Zhang, Guodong ; Magill, Peter
Author_Institution :
Monitoring Div. Inc., East Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
We demonstrate measurement of mean fiber DGD using asynchronous delay-tap sampling in a 10 Gbit/s WDM test-bed. With and without polarization scrambling, mean DGD values of 30.5 ps and 26.2 ps were measured on 31 ps all-order PMD fiber.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; asynchronous delay tap sampling; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; mean fiber DGD measurement; wavelength division multiplexing; Chromatic dispersion; Delay; Distortion measurement; Monitoring; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Sampling methods; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1
