• DocumentCode
    421207
  • Title

    Multichannel PMD mitigation through forward-error-correction with distributed fast PMD scrambling

  • Author

    Liu, X. ; Xie, C. ; Van Wijngaarden, Adriaan J.

  • Author_Institution
    Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    23-27 Feb. 2004
  • Firstpage
    639
  • Abstract
    We propose a multichannel PMD mitigation scheme using forward-error-correction (FEC) and distributed fast polarization scramblers that randomize PMD during each FEC burst-error-correcting-period. Numerical evaluations show substantial improvement in PMD tolerance and reduction in outage probability.
  • Keywords
    forward error correction; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; telecommunication channels; PMD tolerance; burst-error-correcting-period; distributed fast PMD scrambling; forward-error-correction; multichannel PMD mitigation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-772-5
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1359603