PMD penalties in long nonsoliton systems and the effect of inline filtering

Author

Alperovich, Evgeny ; Mecozzi, Antonio ; Shtaif, Mark

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Tel-Aviv Univ.

Volume

18

Issue

10

fYear

2006

fDate

5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1179

Lastpage

1181

Abstract

We consider the polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) tolerance of long nonsoliton systems. We find that the effect of PMD in such systems is to derail the nonlinear evolution of the waveform from its PMD-free trajectory at an early stage of transmission, leading to extremely high penalties at the receiver end. It is shown that PMD affects the propagating bandwidth in a way that is strongly correlated with the received penalty. Use of inline optical filters is shown to be extremely efficient in reducing the penalties caused by PMD

Keywords

nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical filters; optical receivers; PMD penalties; PMD-free trajectory; inline filtering; inline optical filters; long nonsoliton systems; nonlinear waveform evolution; polarization-mode dispersion tolerance; Bit error rate; Filtering; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical propagation; Optical receivers; Polarization mode dispersion; Ultraviolet sources; Optical communication; optical fiber nonlinearities; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.874709

Filename

1629121