Title :
PMD mitigation by a fiber-based all-optical signal regenerator
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun. Eng., Osaka Univ., Japan
Abstract :
PMD mitigation by an all-optical signal regenerator based on spectrum broadening and slicing using normal-dispersion fiber is numerically analyzed. It is shown that synchronous modulation in front of the regenerator significantly improves the performance.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical repeaters; PMD mitigation; fiber-based all-optical signal regenerator; normal-dispersion fiber; spectrum broadening; spectrum slicing; synchronous modulation; Birefringence; Degradation; Delay; Distortion; Energy exchange; Optical fiber polarization; Pulse modulation; Space vector pulse width modulation; Stokes parameters; Transfer functions;
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
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2003.1224321
