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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.201859