System performance variations due to partially polarized noise in a receiver

Author

Sun, Yu ; Lima, I.T. ; Lima, A.O. ; Jiao, H. ; Zweck, J. ; Yan, L. ; Carter, G.M. ; Menyuk, C.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, MD, USA

Volume

15

Issue

11

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1648

Lastpage

1650

Abstract

We systematically investigate effects of partially polarized noise in a receiver. We introduce a relationship between the Q factor and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) that accounts for effects of partially polarized noise. We derive an expression for the distribution of the Q factor for a fixed SNR, and we validate our results by comparison to back-to-back experiments. We show that the system performance varies depending on the angle between the Stokes vectors of the signal and the noise as well as the degree-of-polarization of the noise. Highly polarized noise will cause a larger variation of the system performance.

Keywords

Q-factor; optical fibre polarisation; optical noise; optical receivers; Q factor; Stokes vectors; degree-of-polarization; highly polarized noise; partially polarized noise; receiver; signal-to-noise ratio; system performance variations; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical pulse shaping; Optical receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Sun; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.818669

Filename

1237617