GVD and PMD monitoring by means of SPM and XPM effects in a SOA

Author

Drummond, M.V. ; Costa, L.N. ; Nogueira, R.N. ; Monteiro, P.M.N.P. ; Teixeira, A.L.J.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Telecomun., Univ. de Aveiro, Aveiro

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

22-26 June 2008

Firstpage

106

Lastpage

108

Abstract

Fiber group-velocity dispersion and polarization mode dispersion must be dynamically compensated to avoid performance degradation of optical networks at high bit rates. Precise and reliable dynamic impairment compensation is enabled by optical impairment monitoring. In this paper, GVD and first order PMD monitoring with SOA is demonstrated. XPM is used to monitor the amount of GVD or PMD, whereas SPM allows finding the GVD sign.

Keywords

monitoring; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; reliability; semiconductor optical amplifiers; GVD; PMD; SOA; SPM; XPM; cross-phase modulation; fiber group-velocity dispersion; optical impairment monitoring; polarization mode dispersion; self-phase modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Monitoring; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical saturation; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Polarization mode dispersion; Scanning probe microscopy; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; optical impairment monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2625-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2626-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598382

Filename

4598382