Title :
Outage probabilities in PMD compensated transmission systems
Author :
Sunnerud, Henrik ; Xie, Chongjin ; Karlsson, Magnus ; Andrekson, Peter A.
Author_Institution :
Photonics Lab., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden
Abstract :
We quantify the benefit of using some simple and relevant optical pre- and post-transmission PMD (polarization-mode dispersion) compensation techniques in terms of outage probability in optic transmission systems for both NRZ (non RZ) and RZ (return-to-zero) formats.
Keywords :
light polarisation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; probability; PMD compensation; nonreturn-to-zero; outage probability; polarization-mode dispersion compensation; post-transmission compensation; pretransmission compensation; return-to-zero; Bit error rate; Delay effects; Laboratories; Microelectronics; Optical feedback; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.988883
