Polarization mode dispersion and its mitigation in optical networks

LEOS Summer Topical Meeting - Trang TuN2-TuN2
K.B. Rochford1, G.R. Gray1, D.L. Veasey1
1YAFO Networks, Inc., Hanover, MD, USA

Tóm tắt

PMD effects impose severe penalties on older fiber plants at 10Gb/s and on virtually all plants at 40Gb/s. An optical compensator can mitigate these penalties, allowing error-free performance without severely limiting the regenerator distances. A repeatable, calibrated PMD emulator allows thorough testing of a polarisation mode dispersion compensator (PMDC) and the calculation of outage probabilities used by system designers.

Từ khóa

#Polarization mode dispersion #Intelligent networks #Optical fiber networks #Optical fiber polarization #Optical distortion #Optical receivers #Optical fiber devices #Optical fiber testing #Signal to noise ratio #Optical noise

Tài liệu tham khảo

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