Title :
System penalties induced by second-order polarization mode dispersion
Author :
Xie, Chongjin ; Moller, Lothar
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We show that PCD causes larger penalties than depolarization and depolarization induced penalties are also dependent on 1st-order PMD. Moreover, the input polarization states that give maximum and minimum penalties change with the depolarization value.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; depolarization; depolarization induced penalties; input polarization states; polarization dependent chromatic dispersion; second-order polarization mode dispersion; system penalties;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1