Title :
Polarisation effects in TAT12
Author_Institution :
BT Labs., Ipswich, UK
Abstract :
Polarisation effects such as polarisation dependent loss (PDL), polarisation dependent gain (PDG) and polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) give rise to serious degradations on unoptimised long span optical transmission systems. The operation of TAT12 with an adequate margin was only possible after careful system design, minimising the degradations caused by these three polarisation effects. This paper describes the three phenomena and the penalties caused by them
Keywords :
optical cables; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; submarine cables; TAT12; degradations; long span optical transmission systems; polarisation dependent gain; polarisation dependent loss; polarisation effects; polarisation mode dispersion; system design;
Conference_Titel :
Transoceanic Cable Communications - TAT 12 and 13 Herald a New Era , IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
DOI :
10.1049/ic:19960447
