Title : 
Optimized Polarization Scramblers for PMD Detection
         
        
            Author : 
Mirvoda, Vitali ; Sandel, David ; Wust, Frank ; Noe, Reinhold
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Univ. Paderborn, FB 14/850, Warburger Str. 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany, http://ont.upb.de, mirvoda@ont.upb.de
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A polarization scrambler with a single electrooptic waveplate is presented. A preliminar version allowed to detect 680fs of PMD at 40Gbit/s within 9.6us. With a 2nd waveplate a scrambler independent of input polarization was realized.
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Copenhagen
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
87-90974-63-8