PMD and chirp effects suppression in RF tone-based chromatic dispersion monitoring

Author

Liu, Ning ; Zhong, Wen-De ; Wen, Yang Jing ; Lu, Chao ; Cheng, Linghao ; Wang, Yixin

Author_Institution

Network Technol. Res. Centre, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

Volume

18

Issue

5

fYear

2006

fDate

3/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

673

Lastpage

675

Abstract

We investigate the effects of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) and chirp on radio-frequency tone-based chromatic dispersion (CD) monitoring method, and show that the PMD and chirp induce significant CD monitoring errors. We propose a CD monitoring technique to suppress these effects. Experiment results show that the CD monitoring errors induced by PMD and chirp fluctuation are greatly suppressed.

Keywords

chirp modulation; fluctuations; monitoring; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; wavelength division multiplexing; PMD suppression; RF tone-based monitoring; chirp effects suppression; chirp fluctuations; chromatic dispersion monitoring; dispersion monitoring errors; polarization-mode dispersion; wavelength-division-multiplexing; Chirp modulation; Chromatic dispersion; Frequency measurement; Monitoring; Optical fiber polarization; Polarization mode dispersion; Power measurement; Pulse measurements; RF signals; Radio frequency; Chirp; chromatic dispersion (CD); optical performance monitoring; pilot tone; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.870081

Filename

1593727