• DocumentCode
    993033
  • Title

    Non-blocking PMD monitoring in live optical systems

  • Author

    Hui, R. ; Saunders, R. ; Heffner, B. ; Richards, D. ; Fu, B. ; Adany, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Kansas, KS
  • Volume
    43
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    53
  • Lastpage
    54
  • Abstract
    A simple and non-blocking polarisation-mode dispersion (PMD) monitoring technique using coherent detection is demonstrated and applied to a 40 Gbit/s live fibre-optic system. The results demonstrated a clear correlation between the instantaneous differential group delay and the receiver Q-margin. It was also demonstrated that PMD-induced outage can be eliminated by an adaptive PMD compensator
  • Keywords
    light polarisation; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; 40 Gbit/s; adaptive PMD compensator; coherent detection; live fibre-optic system; live optical systems; nonblocking PMD monitoring; polarisation-mode dispersion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • Filename
    4068491