Title :
Demonstration of PMD Mitigation in Long-Haul WDM Transmission Using Automatic Control of Input State of Polarization
Author :
Ishida, Kazuyuki ; Mizuochi, Takashi ; Sugihara, Takashi
Author_Institution :
Inf. Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kanagawa
Abstract :
Automatic control of the input state of polarization has been shown to reduce the PMD penalty in a 42times20 Gb/s, 3540 km transmission experiment. An outage probability of 2.1E-2 was successfully reduced to zero by applying continuous control during 8 hours of measurement
Keywords :
optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; wavelength division multiplexing; 20 Gbit/s; 3540 km; 8 hours; PMD mitigation; automatic polarization control; long-haul WDM transmission; outage probability;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN :
87-90974-63-8
