Title :
Measurements and theoretical modelling of polarisation mode dispersion in distributed erbium doped fibres
Author :
Schuh, RE ; Altuncu, A. ; Shan, X. ; Siddiqui, AS
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK
Abstract :
We present, what we believe are, the first polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) measurements reported on distributed erbium doped fibres (DEDF), together with theoretical modelling of PMD and discuss their implications for high bit rate soliton transmission over DEDF amplifier links
Keywords :
erbium; amplifier links; distributed erbium doped fibres; high bit rate soliton transmission; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion measurements; optical fibre testing; polarisation mode dispersion; theoretical modelling;
Conference_Titel :
Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communications, 11th International Conference on, and 23rd European Conference on Optical Communications (Conf. Publ. No.: 448)
Conference_Location :
Edinburgh
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-697-0
DOI :
10.1049/cp:19971525
