Title :
Outage vs PMD Tolerance Trade-Off for Fast Polarization Scrambling
Author_Institution :
Alcatel Research & Innovation, Holderaeckerstr. 35, D-70499 Stuttgart, Germany, henning.buelow@alcatel.de
Abstract :
A theory for the outages probability of PMD mitigation by fast scrambling has been evaluated. For 42.7 Gbit/s NRZ-ASK the PMD tolerance can be extended with 1e-5 outage from 3.8 to 5.6ps by 5 scramblers.
Keywords :
Bit error rate; Error correction; Fasteners; Forward error correction; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Probability density function; Signal to noise ratio; Technological innovation; Transmitters;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes, France
Print_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4800975
