Effect of polarization dispersion on the performance of IM-DD communication systems

Author

Iannone, E. ; Matera, F. ; Galtarossa, A. ; Gianello, G. ; Schiano, M.

Author_Institution

Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy

Volume

5

Issue

10

fYear

1993

Firstpage

1247

Lastpage

1249

Abstract

Polarization mode dispersion can influence long distance IM-DD systems especially when optical amplifiers are used to increase the unrepeated link length. The impact of this phenomenon is analyzed in this letter both theoretically and experimentally by means of a 2.5 Gb/s synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) commercial system. Polarization dispersion has a nonnegligible impact on the system performance when the associated differential group delay is of the order of 100 ps.<>

Keywords

intermodulation; light polarisation; optical dispersion; optical links; optical modulation; synchronous digital hierarchy; 100 ps; 2.5 Gbit/s; IM-DD communication systems; differential group delay; long distance IM-DD systems; optical amplifiers; polarization dispersion; polarization mode dispersion; synchronous digital hierarchy; system performance; unrepeated link length; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Chromatic dispersion; Communication systems; Delay; Optical distortion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse shaping; Optical transmitters; Synchronous digital hierarchy;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.248443

Filename

248443