Title :
Polarization control and monitoring
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Polarization-related impairments have become a critical issue for high-data-rate optical systems, particularly when considering polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) and polarization-dependent loss (PDL). In general, polarization effects are stochastic processes and can occur on short or long time scales. Therefore, control and monitoring of these effects may be crucial in any systems-level mitigation. This tutorial will highlight the following key issues: monitoring schemes, emulation of proper statistics, PMD and PDL interaction, and applications of polarization scrambling.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; stochastic processes; emulation; high-data-rate optical systems; polarization control; polarization monitoring; polarization scrambling; polarization-dependent loss; polarization-mode dispersion; stochastic processes; Electrodes; Lasers and Electro-Optics Society; Liquid crystals; Microcell networks; Monitoring; Optical device fabrication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical retarders;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1248092
