Performance degradation due to polarization effects in a dispersion-managed-soliton recirculating loop system

Author

Xie, Chongjin ; Grant, Andrew R. ; Mollenauer, Linn F. ; Liu, Xiang

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

16

Issue

1

fYear

2004

Firstpage

111

Lastpage

113

Abstract

We investigate the performance degradation in dispersion-managed soliton systems caused by polarization-dependent loss and polarization-mode dispersion using a 600-km recirculating loop. We show that in an ultralong-haul transmission system, polarization effects can easily induce a variation in the bit-error rate (BER) greater than two orders of magnitude. In addition, polarization scattering caused by soliton collisions in wavelength-division-multiplexing systems makes the polarization-induced BER variation smaller than that in single-channel systems.

Keywords

birefringence; error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optical solitons; wavelength division multiplexing; Raman amplifiers; bit-error rate; dispersion-managed soliton systems; optical fiber communications; optical signal-to-noise ratio; performance degradation; polarization scattering; polarization-dependent loss; polarization-mode dispersion; random birefringence; recirculating loop; soliton collisions; ultralong-haul transmission system; wavelength scanning method; wavelength-division-multiplexing systems; Bit error rate; Degradation; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical scattering; Page description languages; Polarization mode dispersion; Signal to noise ratio; Solitons; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.819410

Filename

1255968