System outage probability due to first- and second-order PMD

Author

Bülow, Henning

Author_Institution

Corp. Res. Center, Alcatel SEL, Stuttgart, Germany

Volume

10

Issue

5

fYear

1998

fDate

5/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

696

Lastpage

698

Abstract

A theoretical approach is proposed that allows one to quantify the impact of fiber polarization mode dispersion (PMD) on optical binary transmission taking into account not only first-order polarization mode dispersion, but also signal distortion induced by second-order PMD. Using this approach the impact of the spectral signal width on PMD-induced system outage probability could be studied for the first time. An analysis of 10-Gb/s transmission exhibits that, as long as the mean PMD remains below the commonly accepted limit (about 10 ps) for negligible outage, a linear chirp of up to 30 GHz does not lead to an additional increase of the system outage. This result confirms that low bandwidth modulation schemes (external modulator, low chirp laser) do not suffer from additional outage degradation due to second-order PMD.

Keywords

chirp modulation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; optical modulation; probability; 10 Gbit/s; 10 ps; 30 GHz; Gb/s transmission; PMD-induced system outage probability; external modulator; fiber polarization mode dispersion; first-order PMD; first-order polarization mode dispersion; linear chirp; low bandwidth modulation schemes; low chirp laser; optical binary transmission; second-order PMD; signal distortion; spectral signal width; system outage probability; theoretical approach; Bit error rate; Chirp modulation; Degradation; Delay; Fiber lasers; Optical distortion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical transmitters; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.669330

Filename

669330