Demonstration of broad-band PMD mitigation in the presence of PDL through distributed fast polarization scrambling and forward-error correction

Author

Liu, X. ; Giles, C.R. ; Wei, X. ; van Wijngaarden, A.J. ; Kao, Y.-H. ; Xie, C. ; Möller, L. ; Kang, I.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol., Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

17

Issue

5

fYear

2005

fDate

5/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1109

Lastpage

1111

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate broad-band mitigation of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) in the presence of polarization-dependent loss (PDL) by using distributed fast polarization scramblers in systems adopting forward-error correction. The combined penalty of PMD and PDL is smaller than the sum of the individual penalties, which shows the robustness of the PMD mitigation scheme against PDL and the enhancement of PMD tolerance improvement in the presence of PDL. The desired number of scramblers and their distribution are also discussed.

Keywords

forward error correction; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; PDL; PMD mitigation; distributed fast polarization scrambling; forward-error correction; polarization-dependent loss; polarization-mode dispersion; Bit error rate; Error correction codes; Forward error correction; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Page description languages; Polarization mode dispersion; Forward-error correction (FEC); polarization scrambling; polarization-dependent loss (PDL); polarization-mode dispersion (PMD);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.844314

Filename

1424116