Robustness of dispersion-managed solitons to the polarization-mode dispersion in optical fibers

Author

Xie, Chongjin ; Karlsson, Magnus ; Andrekson, Peter A. ; Sunnerud, Henrik

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microelectron. ED, Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden

Volume

13

Issue

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

121

Lastpage

123

Abstract

The robustness of dispersion-managed (DM) solitons to polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) is studied by numerical simulations. It is shown clearly that DM solitons are robust to PMD, and generally, DM solitons are more robust to PMD than conventional solitons. The robustness of DM solitons depends on both map strength and average group velocity dispersion (GVD). We show that the larger the map strength and average GVD, the more robust are the DM solitons to PMD, which is due to the increased power of DM solitons with the large map strength and average GVD.

Keywords

numerical analysis; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; optical solitons; average group velocity dispersion; dispersion-managed solitons; increased power; map strength; numerical simulations; optical fibers; polarization-mode dispersion; robustness; Delta modulation; Numerical simulation; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; Robustness; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.910508

Filename

910508