Adaptive PMD monitoring and compensation in optical fiber communications

Author

Yuan, Xueguang ; Zhang, Jinnan ; Zhang, Yangan ; Zhang, Minglun ; Zhang, Xiaoguang

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Inf. Photonics & Opt. Commun. (BUPT), Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

8-10 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) causes time and channel dependent pulse distortions in high-speed optical fiber communication systems and limits their transmission capacity. This paper describes an adaptive PMD monitoring and compensation scheme. A PMD online monitoring unit was designed and implemented. An asynchronous mechanism of high speed analog to digital conversion was proposed and realized high speed monitoring of degree of polarization (DOP). The technique of automatic gain control was adopted and expanded the subject power range of the input optical signal. The experiment results showed that the adaptive PMD compensation system could compensate 1st order and 2nd order PMD simultaneity. The adaptive range of input optical power was -16~0 Bm.

Keywords

compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; PMD compensation; PMD online monitoring unit; adaptive PMD monitoring; analog to digital conversion; asynchronous mechanism; automatic gain control; optical fiber communications; polarization degree; polarization mode dispersion; pulse distortions; transmission capacity; Adaptive systems; Analog-digital conversion; Gain control; High speed optical techniques; Monitoring; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Polarization mode dispersion; Adaptive PMD compensation; Adaptive PMD monitoring; Optical fiber communications; Polarization mode dispersion (PMD);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 2009. ICICS 2009. 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Macau

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4656-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4657-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICS.2009.5397638

Filename

5397638