Deleterious system effects due to low-frequency polarization scrambling in the presence of nonnegligible polarization-dependent loss

Author

Yan, L.-S. ; Yu, Q. ; Luo, T. ; McGeehan, J.E. ; Willner, A.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

15

Issue

3

fYear

2003

fDate

3/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

464

Lastpage

466

Abstract

We experimentally investigate the deleterious system effects due to polarization scrambling at frequencies of tens of kilohertz. In the presence of nonnegligible instantaneous polarization-dependent loss (PDL), transmission systems may suffer from performance variations due to the polarization-scrambling-induced intensity modulation. In particular, an instantaneous PDL of 2.6 dB can induce /spl sim/3 dB power penalty at a 29-dB optical signal-to-noise ratio.

Keywords

error statistics; intensity modulation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optical noise; optical transmitters; deleterious system effects; low-frequency polarization scrambling; nonnegligible instantaneous polarization-dependent loss; optical communications; optical signal-to-noise ratio; performance variations; polarization-scrambling-induced intensity modulation; power penalty; transmission systems; transmitter; Frequency; High speed optical techniques; Intensity modulation; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical saturation; Optical transmitters; Page description languages; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.807957

Filename

1182792