Title :
PMD-insensitive DOP-based OSNR monitoring assisted by transmitter-side polarization scrambling
Author :
Lu, Guo-Wei ; Cheung, Man-Hong ; Chen, Lian-Kuan ; Chan, Chun-Kit
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate a simple PMD-insensitive DOP-based OSNR monitoring technique aided by transmitter-side polarization scrambling. At OSNR =25 dB, OSNR monitoring with about 1-dB standard deviation was achieved in 10-Gb/s NRZ-OOK systems with DGD of 0-80 ps.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical noise; optical transmitters; 10 Gbit/s; 25 dB; DGD; DOP; NRZ-OOK systems; OSNR monitoring; PMD; differential group delay; polarization mode dispersion; transmitter-side polarization scrambling;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
