• DocumentCode
    1746510
  • Title

    A short recirculating fiber loop testbed with accurate reproduction of Maxwellian PMD statistics

  • Author

    Lee, S. ; Yu, Q. ; Yan, L.-S. ; Xie, Y. ; Adamezyk, O.H. ; Willner, A.E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    17-22 March 2001
  • Abstract
    A short recirculating fiber loop (/spl sim/100 km) that can emulate polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) with Maxwellian statistics is realized by loop-synchronous polarization scrambling inside the loop. The performance of our distribution-correct PMD loop is. compared both experimentally and numerically to that of a distribution-incorrect PMD loop.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; statistical analysis; 100 km; Maxwellian PMD statistics; distribution-correct PNM loop; distribution-incorrect PMD loop; loop-synchronous polarization scrambling; short recirculating fiber loop; Circuit testing; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Polarization mode dispersion; Power distribution; Probability distribution; Statistical analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2001. OFC 2001
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-655-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    928399