Title :
Q-Factor Based Performance Analysis of PMD Measurement Methods
Author :
Boehm, Stefan ; Schumacher, Knut ; Meissner, Peter
Author_Institution :
Inst. fuer Hochfrequenztech., Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Abstract :
In this contribution the performance of two methods for monitoring the polarization mode dispersion (PMD) of a transmission line without data traffic interruption are analyzed and compared using numerical simulations. The monitored PMD is used as control signal to set a PMD compensator and the Q- factor after the compensator is taken to assess the performance of the monitoring method. It is shown for the first time that an accurately measured PMD does not necessarily result in an optimal setting of a feed-forward compensator and vice versa.
Keywords :
Q-factor; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; Q-factor based performance analysis; high-speed optical communication; polarization mode dispersion; Feedforward systems; Monitoring; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical propagation; Performance analysis; Polarization mode dispersion; Power transmission lines; Q factor; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Northern Optics, 2006
Conference_Location :
Bergen
Print_ISBN :
14244-0435-5
DOI :
10.1109/NO.2006.348367
