Title :
Combined effect of DGD and PDL evaluated in field testbed for 128-Gb/s PDM-QPSK signal
Author :
Iwaki, A. ; Kawai, T. ; Sakamaki, Y. ; Yamamoto, S. ; Inui, T. ; Kawakami, H. ; Yamanaka, S. ; Ono, T. ; Mori, K. ; Suzuki, M. ; Kataoka, T. ; Fukutoku, M. ; Sakano, T. ; Tomizawa, M. ; Miyamoto, Y.
Author_Institution :
NTT Network Innovation Labs., NTT Corp., Yokosuka, Japan
Abstract :
We experimentally investigated the combined effect of DGD and PDL in installed fibers for the first time. The experimental results show that the Q-factor variation caused by PDL decreases as the DGD value increases.
Keywords :
Q-factor; multiplexing; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; quadrature phase shift keying; DGD; PDL; PDM-QPSK signal; Q-factor; bit rate 128 Gbit/s; differential group delay; field testbed; optical transport networks; polarization dependent loss; polarization division multiplexing; quadrature phase-shift keying; Digital signal processing; Laboratories; Optical fiber networks; Power transmission lines; Q factor; Simulation; Transmission line measurements;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0976-9
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8884
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2012.6275949
