Standard (NRZ 1 x 40 Gb/s, 210 km) and polarization multiplex (CS-RZ, 2 x 40 Gb/s, 212 km) transmissions with PMD compensation

Author

Sandel, David ; Wust, Frank ; Mirvoda, Vitali ; Noe, Reinhold

Author_Institution

Dept. of Opt. Commun. & High-Frequency Eng., Paderborn Univ., Germany

Volume

14

Issue

8

fYear

2002

Firstpage

1181

Lastpage

1183

Abstract

A single-waveplate polarization scrambler at the transmitter (TX) generates pulse arrival time fluctuations in the presence of polarization-mode dispersion. These were detected with a 680-fs sensitivity in the receiver clock recovery phase-locked loop, thereby enabling a polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) compensated 210-km nonreturn-to-zero transmission. For polarization division multiplex, polarizations were scrambled by an interchannel phase modulation which enabled PMD-compensated CS-RZ 212-km transmission.

Keywords

compensation; fluctuations; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical phase locked loops; optical transmitters; sensitivity; synchronisation; 210 km; 212 km; 40 Gbit/s; 680 fs; 80 Gbit/s; PMD compensation; PMD-compensated CS-RZ transmission; interchannel phase modulation; polarization division multiplex; polarization multiplexed transmission; polarization-mode dispersion; polarization-mode dispersion compensated nonreturn-to-zero transmission; pulse arrival time fluctuations; receiver clock recovery phase-locked loop; sensitivity; single-waveplate polarization scrambler; Clocks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Phase detection; Phase locked loops; Phase modulation; Polarization mode dispersion; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.1022011

Filename

1022011