Title :
Accurate PMD measurement by observation of data-bearing signals
Author :
Taylor, Michael G. ; Sova, Raymond M.
Author_Institution :
Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, OR, USA
Abstract :
PMD is measured by the exact distortion it applies to a 10Gbaud DP-QPSK signal recorded by a coherent digitizer. Accuracies were obtained of 0.7ps (no noise loading) and 1.0ps (signal noise-loaded to 10dB Q-factor).
Keywords :
Q-factor; optical distortion; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; quadrature phase shift keying; 10Gbaud DP-QPSK signal; Q-factor; accurate PMD measurement; coherent digitizer; data-bearing signals; exact distortion; polarization mode dispersion; time 0.7 ps; time 1.0 ps; Distortion measurement; Noise; Optical distortion; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical transmitters;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6359266
