• DocumentCode
    1453705
  • Title

    Experimental quantification of soliton robustness to polarization-mode dispersion in dispersion-managed systems

  • Author

    Sunnerud, Henrik ; Li, Jie ; Andrekson, Peter A. ; Xie, Chongjin

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Microelectron., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden
  • Volume
    13
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    118
  • Lastpage
    120
  • Abstract
    We have, for the first time, observed and experimentally quantified the soliton robustness to polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) in a dispersion-managed (DM) fiber link. Long-term measurements were performed in a system where the PMD-characteristics were varying randomly over time. The results show that DM solitons are very robust, at least for low map strengths (0\n\n\t\t
  • Keywords
    optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; optical solitons; 580 km; dispersion-managed fiber link; dispersion-managed systems; experimental quantification; long-term measurements; low map strengths; polarization-mode dispersion; random variation; soliton robustness; Delta modulation; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Polarization mode dispersion; Pulse measurements; Robustness; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation; Time measurement; Wavelength measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/68.910507
  • Filename
    910507