Title :
Experimental demonstration of PDL penalty reduction by wavelength-interleaving transmission
Author :
Shibahara, Kohki ; Yonenaga, Kazushige
Author_Institution :
NTT Network Innovation Labs., NTT Corp., Yokosuka, Japan
Abstract :
The validity of wavelength-interleaving (WI) transmission is demonstrated experimentally for reduction of PDL-induced penalty by the method of extreme value statistics. We confirm that WI technique between 2 channels can effectively reduce Q-penalty or outage probability induced by PDL.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; probability; PDL induced penalty; PDL penalty reduction; extreme value statistics; polarization dependent loss; wavelength interleaving transmission; Adaptive optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Q-factor;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
