Title :
Wideband All-Order PMD Emulation via Ultrafast Pulse Shaping
Author :
Miao, H. ; Weiner, A.M.
Author_Institution :
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette
Abstract :
A pulse shaper based polarization mode dispersion (PMD) emulator with the capability of generating arbitrary desired frequency-dependent PMD profiles is demonstrated. The PMD emulator provides a bandwidth of 8 nm at a spectral resolution of ~10 GHz. The pulse shaper acting as PMD emulator incorporates liquid crystal modulator arrays (LCM) with a total of 4 layers. The measured PMD vectors generated by the emulator are close to the desired (simulated) PMD vectors.
Keywords :
liquid crystal devices; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical pulse shaping; liquid crystal modulator arrays; pulse shaper based polarization mode dispersion emulator; spectral resolution; ultrafast pulse shaping; wideband all-order emulation; Birefringence; Emulation; Frequency dependence; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; Pulse modulation; Pulse shaping methods; Ultra wideband technology; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0931-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0931-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386461
