Monitoring and control of polarization-related impairments in optical fiber systems

Author

Willner, Alan Eli ; Nezam, S. M Reza Motaghian ; Yan, Lianshan ; Pan, Zhongqi ; Hauer, Michelle C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng.Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

22

Issue

1

fYear

2004

Firstpage

106

Lastpage

125

Abstract

Polarization-related impairments have become a critical issue for high-data-rate optical systems, particularly when considering polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) and polarization-dependent loss (PDL). In general, polarization effects are stochastic processes and can occur on short or long time scales. Therefore, control and monitoring of these effects may be crucial in any systems-level mitigation. This tutorial will highlight the following key issues: PMD and PDL, monitoring schemes, emulation of proper statistics, interaction, and applications of polarization scrambling.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; stochastic processes; PDL; PMD; high-data-rate optical systems; monitoring schemes; optical fibre communication; polarization effects; polarization scrambling; polarization-dependent loss; polarization-mode dispersion; polarization-related impairments control; polarization-related impairments monitoring; stochastic processes; systems-level mitigation; Control systems; Emulation; Monitoring; Optical control; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical losses; Page description languages; Polarization mode dispersion; Stochastic processes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2003.822556

Filename

1266684