Title :
PMD-induced crosstalk in the presence of polarization scrambling
Author :
Park, K.J. ; Youn, C.J. ; Lee, J.H. ; Chung, Y.C.
Author_Institution :
i-Networking Lab., Samsung Adv. Inst. of Technol., Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea
Abstract :
We report on the polarization-mode dispersion (PMD)-induced crosstalk in the presence of polarization scrambling. When the polarization scrambling was used, PMD could generate unwanted intensity modulation and degrade receiver sensitivity. The results showed that, even when the differential group delay was only 10 ps, the bit-synchronous polarization scrambling could increase the power penalty up to 1 dB for 10-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero signal.
Keywords :
intensity modulation; optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical receivers; 10 Gbit/s; 10 ps; PMD-induced crosstalk; bit-synchronous polarization scrambling; differential group delay; intensity modulation; polarization mode dispersion; power penalty; receiver sensitivity degradation; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Intensity modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical crosstalk; Optical feedback; Optical fiber polarization; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical polarization;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2004.834917
