Title :
Performance degradation due to polarization effects in a dispersion-managed-soliton recirculating loop system
Author :
Xie, Chongjin ; Grant, Andrew R. ; Mollenauer, Linn F. ; Liu, Xiang
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We investigate the performance degradation in dispersion-managed soliton systems caused by polarization-dependent loss and polarization-mode dispersion using a 600-km recirculating loop. We show that in an ultralong-haul transmission system, polarization effects can easily induce a variation in the bit-error rate (BER) greater than two orders of magnitude. In addition, polarization scattering caused by soliton collisions in wavelength-division-multiplexing systems makes the polarization-induced BER variation smaller than that in single-channel systems.
Keywords :
birefringence; error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optical solitons; wavelength division multiplexing; Raman amplifiers; bit-error rate; dispersion-managed soliton systems; optical fiber communications; optical signal-to-noise ratio; performance degradation; polarization scattering; polarization-dependent loss; polarization-mode dispersion; random birefringence; recirculating loop; soliton collisions; ultralong-haul transmission system; wavelength scanning method; wavelength-division-multiplexing systems; Bit error rate; Degradation; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical scattering; Page description languages; Polarization mode dispersion; Signal to noise ratio; Solitons; Stimulated emission;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2003.819410
