Title :
Experimental investigation of the statistics of the interplay between nonlinear and PDL effects in polarization multiplexed systems
Author :
Vassilieva, Olga ; Oda, Shoichiro ; Hoshida, Takeshi ; Rasmussen, Jens C. ; Sekiya, Motoyoshi
Author_Institution :
Fujitsu Labs. of America, Inc., Richardson, TX, USA
Abstract :
Experimental studies of the combined nonlinear and PDL effects reveal that interplay between fiber nonlinearity and PDL changes the shape of the Q-distribution, which becomes narrower and asymmetric, depending on system parameters.
Keywords :
light polarisation; multiplexing; optical fibre networks; statistical distributions; PDL effects; Q-distribution; fiber nonlineańty; nonlinear effects; polarization multiplexed systems; system parameters; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Q-factor; Shape; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0457-0
