Title :
Improvement of BER performance by active PMD compensation employing the steepest descent-based tracking algorithm
Author :
Tanizawa, Ken ; Hirose, Akira
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
We report improvements of signal quality by steepest-descent based tracking compensation of fast PMD fluctuations. Transmission simulations at 160 Gb/s show that bit-error-ratio characteristics are improved by 1.7 dB.
Keywords :
error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical tracking; PMD fluctuations; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; bit-error-ratio characteristics; high-speed optical fiber transmission; polarization mode dispersion; signal quality; steepest descent-based tracking algorithm; transmission simulation; Bit error rate; Delay effects; Fluctuations; Monitoring; Optical fiber polarization; Optical receivers; Optimization methods; Polarization mode dispersion; Proposals; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2009. OECC 2009. 14th
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4102-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4103-7
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2009.5215689
