Tunability and monitoring of chromatic dispersion and PMD in optical networks

Author

Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

201

Abstract

High-bit-rate (≥10 Gb/s/channel) transmission systems are highly susceptible to deleterious optical-fiber-based effects, such as chromatic dispersion, polarization-mode dispersion (PMD), and nonlinearities. Systems are designed such that these degrading effects are either minimized or compensated. This paper deals with the need in ≥40 Gb/s/channel optical networks for: (i) tunable dispersion compensation, and (ii) dynamic monitoring of the signal degrading effects.

Keywords

compensation; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre filters; optical fibre networks; optical fibre testing; optical tuning; 40 Gbit/s; PMD; chromatic dispersion; deleterious optical-fiber-based effects; dynamic monitoring; high-bit-rate optical networks; high-bit-rate transmission systems; signal degrading effects; tunability; tunable dispersion compensation; vestigial-sideband optical filtering; Chromatic dispersion; Degradation; High speed optical techniques; Intelligent networks; Monitoring; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical sensors; Polarization mode dispersion; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7500-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2002.1133997

Filename

1133997