A 40 Gb/s eye monitor and its application to adaptive PMD compensation

Author

Buchali, Fred ; Baumert, W. ; Bulow, Henning ; Poirrier, Julien

Author_Institution

Alcatel Res. & Innovation, Marcoussis, France

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

202

Lastpage

203

Abstract

For the first time an eye monitor for 40 Gb/s application was shown with high speed operation and high sensitivity. Using this eye monitor as well as degree of polarisation (DOP) as feedback signal optical polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) compensation experiments were performed by using an all order statistical PMD emulator. The cumulative probabilities of BER show a drastic improvement of BER due to PMD compensation with an advantage of the eye opening as feedback signal. The experimental results are consistent with simulations using same system parameters.

Keywords

adaptive optics; compensation; error statistics; monitoring; optical feedback; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; sensitivity; 40 Gbit/s; BER; DOP; Gb/s eye monitor; adaptive PMD compensation; all order statistical PMD emulator; cumulative probabilities; degree of polarisation; feedback signal; high sensitivity; high speed operation; optical PMD compensation; polarisation mode dispersion; system parameters; Adaptive optics; Bit error rate; Error analysis; Monitoring; Optical feedback; Optical sensors; Rails; Technological innovation; Threshold voltage; Wavelength division multiplexing;

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.2002.1036306

Filename

1036306