Simultaneous monitoring of both optical signal-to-noise ratio and polarization-mode dispersion using polarization scrambling and polarization beam splitting

Author

Yan, L.-S. ; Yao, X. Steve ; Shi, Y. ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

23

Issue

10

fYear

2005

Firstpage

3290

Lastpage

3294

Abstract

This paper proposes a simple method to monitor both optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) and polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) simultaneously using a polarization-scrambling module followed by polarization beam splitting. OSNR and PMD are obtained from interaction terms between two orthogonal polarization arms. Monitored OSNR and PMD are independent of each other. Experimental results are demonstrated in a 10-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) system with OSNR from 18 to 36 dB and PMD from 0 to 70 ps.

Keywords

optical beam splitters; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical noise; 10 Gbit/s; 18 to 36 dB; OSNR; PMD; nonreturn-to-zero system; optical signal-to-noise ratio; polarization beam splitting; polarization scrambling; polarization-mode dispersion; Degradation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Monitoring; Nonlinear optics; Optical beam splitting; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Polarization mode dispersion; Signal to noise ratio; Degree of polarization; optical communications; optical polarization; optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR); polarization-mode dispersion (PMD);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2005.855686

Filename

1522416