Coherent heterodyne frequency-selective polarimeter for error signal generation in higher-order PMD compensators

Author

Roudas, I. ; Piech, G. ; Mlejnek, M. ; Zhu, Y. ; Chowdhury, D.Q.

Author_Institution

Corning Inc., Somerset, NJ, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

299

Lastpage

301

Abstract

We proposed and demonstrated a coherent heterodyne receiver architecture that can frequency-resolve the Stokes parameters of a modulated signal. We also studied the feasibility of generation of an error signal based on the Stokes parameters variance. We presented experimental results for a 10 Gb/s NRZ signal with first-order polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) and theoretical results for a 40 Gb/s RZ signal with higher-order PMD.

Keywords

compensation; errors; heterodyne detection; monitoring; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; optical modulation; optical receivers; polarimeters; 40 Gbit/s; Gb/s RZ signal; Stokes parameters; coherent heterodyne frequency-selective polarimeter; coherent heterodyne receiver architecture; error signal generation; first-order PMD; first-order polarisation mode dispersion; frequency resolve; higher-order PMD; higher-order PMD compensators; modulated Signal; Band pass filters; Frequency; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Polarization mode dispersion; Signal generators; Stokes parameters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036374

Filename

1036374