A Fixed Differential Group Delay but Varying Second-Order Polarization Mode Dispersion Emulator

Author

Musara, Vitalis ; Wu, Lorinda ; Leitch, Andrew W R

Author_Institution

Phys. Dept., Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Univ., Port Elizabeth

fYear

2008

Firstpage

468

Lastpage

472

Abstract

We design a polarization mode dispersion (PMD) emulator with a fixed root-mean-square differential group delay (RMS-DGD) but varying second-order PMD (SOPMD) using only a combination of polarization maintaining fibres and a polarization controller. Besides controlling the mean PMD values of the emulator, simultaneous adjustments in the maximum and minimum values of PMD statistics can be performed. Therefore this novel design will achieve more realistic statistical distribution by exhibiting irregular fluctuations that occur around the RMS-DGD due to SOPMD.

Keywords

delays; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; fixed differential group delay; fixed root-mean-square differential group delay; polarization mode dispersion emulator; second-order polarization mode dispersion emulator; Delay; Emulation; Fluctuations; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber theory; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Stochastic processes; birefringence; emulator; mode coupling; polarization mode dispersion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Communications, Information Technology & Biomedical Applications, 2008 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gauteng

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3281-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3453-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BROADCOM.2008.23

Filename

4696150