Higher order PMD canceller

Author

Poirrier, Julien ; Buchali, Fred ; Bülow, Henning ; Lanne, Stéphanie ; Corbel, Erwan

Author_Institution

Alcatel Res. & Innovation, Stuttgart, Germany

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

236

Lastpage

237

Abstract

We studied a higher order PMD mitigation scheme, aiming at suppressing depolarized components of a compensated signal, the higher order canceller. It is composed of a simple compensator followed by a polarization controller and a polarizer. We experimentally verified that it performs better than its first stage alone. Using simulation, we addressed its impact on system to more relevant outage probability and better feedback signals. We prove, that, for a cumulative probability of CP=10^-5 at (PMD)=30 ps, it can reduce by nearly 1 dB the power penalty of a simple compensator, reaching then the 2 dB outage margin. Finally, it should be emphasized that this mitigation technique is already implemented in polarization dependent receiver and has been so far overseen as an advantage of such a structure.

Keywords

compensation; optical communication equipment; optical feedback; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical polarisers; optical receivers; probability; 30 ps; compensated signal; cumulative probability; depolarized components; higher order PMD canceller; higher order PMD mitigation; higher order PMD mitigation scheme; mitigation technique; outage probability; polarization controller; polarization dependent receiver; power penalty; simple compensator; Birefringence; Frequency; Optical coupling; Optical distortion; Optical feedback; Optical fiber polarization; Optical propagation; Optical receivers; Polarization mode dispersion; Technological innovation;

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.2002.1036329

Filename

1036329