Title :
The effects of distributed PMD, PDL, and loop scrambling on BER distributions in a recirculating loop used to emulate long-haul terrestrial transmission
Author :
Xu, Hao ; Wen, J. ; Zweck, John ; Van, Luc ; Menyuk, Curtis ; Carter, G.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, MD, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate that, even for a long-haul recirculating loop system with low-PMD fiber, loop-synchronous polarization scrambling must be used for the performance to resemble that in a straight-line system. Otherwise, the BER can vary over four orders of magnitude.
Keywords :
error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; BER distributions; distributed polarization mode dispersion effect; long-haul recirculating loop system; long-haul terrestrial transmission; loop-synchronous polarization scrambling; low-polarization mode dispersion fiber; polarization-dependent loss effect; straight-line system; Birefringence; Bit error rate; Chromatic dispersion; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Page description languages; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1247641
