Author :
Neukirch, Ulrich ; Hempstead, Martin ; Piech, Garrett ; Mauro, Yihong ; Mlejnek, Michal ; Soulliere, Mark J. ; Webb, Mike ; Pikula, Dragan ; Hoyt, Rick ; Anderegg, Mary ; Dailey, Mike ; Wang, Feiling ; Drewnowski, Chris ; Sobiski, Don
Abstract :
Design, test, and performance requirement and analysis for a polarization-mode-dispersion compensator (PMDC) with four degrees of freedom is presented. The performance is analyzed on the basis of time-integrated and time-resolved bit-error ratio (BER) measurements. Signal impairments are generated by both, first- and higher-order emulators. The probability distributions of bit errors measured over many one second intervals exhibit very long tails. Therefore even a PMDC with a good average BER performance may result in a significant total outage time for a given system.
Keywords :
compensation; error statistics; optical design techniques; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; probability; BER; PMDC; bit-error ratio; degrees of freedom; polarization-mode-dispersion compensator; probability distributions; second-order PMD compensator; time-resolved performance analysis; Bit error rate; Delay; Detectors; Life estimation; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Performance analysis; Probability distribution; Statistics; Testing;
