• DocumentCode
    448015
  • Title

    Noise effect on the measurement of polarization-mode dispersion in a system with polarization-dependent loss using a generalized Poincare sphere method

  • Author

    Jiao, H. ; Xu, H. ; Yan, L. ; Carter, G.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    597
  • Abstract
    We simulate the measurement statistics of differential group delay and differential attenuation slope in a long-haul fiber communication system using a generalized Poincare sphere method and found them to be sensitive to Stokes noise.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; optical noise; Stokes noise; differential attenuation slope; differential group delay; generalized poincare sphere method; long-haul fiber communication system; noise effect; polarization-dependent loss; polarization-mode dispersion measurement; Attenuation measurement; Global Positioning System; Loss measurement; Noise level; Noise measurement; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Page description languages; Polarization mode dispersion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-795-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2005.201859
  • Filename
    1572925