Title :
Dependence of non-linear depolarization on the overall polarization of PMD distorted WDM signals
Author :
Möller, L. ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Buhl, L.L.
Author_Institution :
Crawford Hill Lab., Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We show that the overall polarization of a WDM signal has to be minimized in order to reduce cross-phase modulation induced polarization scattering (XPMIPS) between channels of a DWDM system which can limit the effectiveness of PMD compensators or polarization demultiplexing mechanisms.
Keywords :
light polarisation; light scattering; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; phase modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM; PMD distortion; WDM signal; cross-phase modulation induced polarization scattering; nonlinear depolarization; polarization demultiplexing; polarization-mode dispersion; Bit error rate; Demultiplexing; Mirrors; Nonlinear distortion; Phase distortion; Polarization mode dispersion; Power transmission lines; Scattering; Signal processing; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.988888
