• DocumentCode
    378251
  • Title

    Outage probability due to polarization-mode dispersion in soliton systems

  • Author

    Xie, Chongjin ; Sunnerud, Henrik ; Karlsson, Magnus ; Andrekson, P.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Photonics Lab., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    208
  • Abstract
    We find that the interaction between solitons and dispersive waves generated by PMD seriously degrades the performance of soliton systems. Soliton control methods and dispersion-managed solitons, which could reduce such interaction, can achieve much better performance.
  • Keywords
    error statistics; light polarisation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; probability; BER degradation; PMD; dispersion-managed solitons; dispersive waves; outage probability; polarization-mode dispersion; Bit error rate; Degradation; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Linear systems; Optical receivers; Polarization mode dispersion; Pulse shaping methods; Shape; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6705-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2001.988885
  • Filename
    988885