All-order PMD emulator with tunable statistics

Author

Yan, L.-S. ; Shi, Y.Q. ; Yao, X.S. ; Willner, A.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

14-16 July 2003

Abstract

In this paper, a new configuration is proposed that can emulate all-order polarization mode dispersion (PMD) with tunable statistics. The emulator is composed of multiple birefringent crystals separated with magnetooptic (MO) rotators. Unver certain control conditions, these MO rotators can also work as switches, i.e. they can add or cancel the differential group delay (DGD) between adjacent sections by aligning fast axis with either fast axis of slow axis. Thus the emulator can be configured into different crystal combinations with different birefringence and generate PMD with tunable average values. Computer simulations show the effectiveness of the approach with three typical PMD values as well as demonstrating the corresponding 2nd-order PMD.

Keywords

birefringence; magneto-optical devices; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical switches; optical tuning; 2nd-order PMD; all-order PMD emulator; all-order polarization mode dispersion; birefringence; differential group delay; fast axis; magnetooptic rotators; multiple birefringent crystals; tunable statistics; Crystals; High speed optical techniques; Magnetooptic effects; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Photonics; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Switches; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Holey Fibers and Photonic Crystals/Polarization Mode Dispersion/Photonics Time/Frequency Measurement and Control, 2003 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7982-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.2003.1224309

Filename

1224309