Title :
Monitoring PMD-induced penalty and other system performance metrics via a high-speed spectral polarimeter
Author :
Wang, Shawn X. ; Weiner, Andrew M. ; Boroditsky, Misha ; Brodsky, Misha
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
Abstract :
We developed and tested a nonintrusive technique for estimating polarization-mode-dispersion-induced system penalties based on spectral polarization measurements. Other system characteristics such as power fluctuations and carrier-frequency drift could also be monitored simultaneously. Our spectral polarimeter works in milliseconds, and can be scaled to monitor all channels in the C-band
Keywords :
monitoring; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; polarimeters; PMD; polarization-mode-dispersion; spectral polarimeter; Laboratories; Length measurement; Monitoring; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical noise; Radio frequency; Signal to noise ratio; System performance; Optical fiber communications; polarimetry; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD); system performance;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2006.880779
