Dependence of polarization-mode dispersion penalties on decision threshold and receiver bandwidth

Author

Kim, Chul Han

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., South Korea

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

53

Abstract

We measured the dependence of PMD-induced penalty on receiver characteristics in an optically preamplified receiver. The penalty is strongly dependent on the location of the decision point and on the electrical filter bandwidth of the receiver. We also confirmed that, for an optically preamplified receiver, RZ signals are more tolerant of first-order PMD than NRZ signals for typical receiver electrical bandwidths.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical receivers; telecommunication signalling; NRZ signals; PMD-induced penalty; RZ signals; decision point location; decision threshold; electrical filter bandwidth; first-order PMD; optically preamplified receiver; polarization-mode dispersion penalties; receiver bandwidth; receiver characteristics; receiver electrical bandwidths; Bandwidth; Monitoring; Nonlinear systems; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Polarization mode dispersion; Solitons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036197

Filename

1036197