Title :
BER and power penalty fluctuations due to PMD statistics in 10 Gbit/s optical transmissions
Author :
dos Santos, A. Bessa ; Jimenez, M.R. ; von der Weid, J.P. ; Djupsjöbacka, A.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Telecommun. Studies, Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
fDate :
6/6/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Polarisation-mode dispersion (PMD) in optical fibres causes a time-varying power penalty for the receiver. This variation has the same time-scale as low bit error rate (BER) measurements. Hereby, power penalty statistics can be difficult to determine with traditional BER measurements. A method where the statistics can be measured both quickly and accurately is proposed
Keywords :
error statistics; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical receivers; 10 Gbit/s; 10 Gbit/s optical transmissions; BER; PMD statistics; low bit error rate measurements; optical fibres; polarisation-mode dispersion; power penalty fluctuations; receiver sensitivity curve; time-varying power penalty;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20020401
