• DocumentCode
    1058784
  • Title

    A Method to Calculate PMD-Induced Eye-Opening Penalty and Signal Outage for RZ-Modulated Signal Formats

  • Author

    DjupsjÖbacka, Anders ; Berntson, Anders ; Mårtensson, Jonas

  • Author_Institution
    Photonic Dept., Acreo AB, Kista
  • Volume
    26
  • Issue
    17
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    3186
  • Lastpage
    3189
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we present a fast and computational low-intense method to calculate signal outage due to polarization mode dispersion (PMD) for RZ-based modulation formats. The presented tool serves mainly as a fast algorithm to calculate qualitative measures of signal outage for these modulation formats.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; RZ-modulated signal formats; polarization mode dispersion; signal outage; Delay effects; Optical distortion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical signal processing; Polarization mode dispersion; Shape; Signal processing; Space vector pulse width modulation; Statistical analysis; Stress; Optical signal outage; PMD induced signal outage; RZ-modulation formats; polarization mode dispersion (PMD);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Lightwave Technology, Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0733-8724
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JLT.2008.923931
  • Filename
    4738482