• DocumentCode
    475162
  • Title

    Effect of the position of a highly birefringent fiber segment on the total PMD of a fiber link

  • Author

    Al Kanj, L. ; Hellerbrand, Stephan ; Hanik, Norbert

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., American Univ. of Beirut, Beirut
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    22-26 June 2008
  • Firstpage
    109
  • Lastpage
    112
  • Abstract
    PMD is regarded one of the main impairments in optical fibers due to the pulse broadening that it induces causing limitations in range and quality. It is well known that PMD may arise from a very bad section within a long fiber due to some external forces such as torsion, bending, etc. This work investigates the effect of the position of a bad fiber within a long link; the bad fiber is investigated in three places, at the beginning, the middle and the end of the fiber link.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; birefringence; fiber link; fiber segment; polarisation mode dispersion; pulse broadening; total PMD; Birefringence; Computational modeling; Magnetic cores; Mathematical model; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber theory; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Propagation constant;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Athens
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2625-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2626-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598383
  • Filename
    4598383