Deterministic broad-band PMD emulator

Author

Phua, P.B. ; Haus, H.A. ; Ippen, E.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

16

Issue

6

fYear

2004

fDate

6/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1486

Lastpage

1488

Abstract

We present the architecture for a deterministic broad-band polarization-mode dispersion (DBPMD) emulator based on four stages. The first three stages of flexible frequency-dependent rotation provide the three degrees of freedom for emulating PMD at each frequency, while the fourth stage compensates for the isotropic dispersion created by the first three stages. We describe the algorithm to synthesize the required rotation angle of each stage using the PMD concatenation rules. Using numerical simulations, we demonstrate good fidelity of the DBPMD emulator in approximating randomly selected spectra of PMD vectors.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; PMD concatenation rules; PMD vectors; deterministic broadband PMD emulator; deterministic broadband polarization-mode dispersion emulator; frequency-dependent rotation; isotropic dispersion; Birefringence; Frequency; Monte Carlo methods; Numerical simulation; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Polarization mode dispersion; Scholarships; Transmission line matrix methods; Vectors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.827425

Filename

1300640