Analysis and simulation of polarization mode dispersion effects on high bit-rate fiber-optic transmission system

Author

Shafin, R. ; Sen, Pintu ; Basak, S. ; Islam, Aminul ; Majumder, Satya P. ; Islam, Md Shariful

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Dhaka, Bangladesh

fYear

2012

fDate

20-22 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

46

Abstract

Simulation is presented on the effects of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) as a source of system impairment in high bit-rate fiber-optic transmission systems. A simulation model is introduced that illustrates how the differential group delay (DGD) affects the bit error rate (BER) limiting the system performance. Power penalty due to PMD is determined from both the eye diagram and BER curve and their mutual consistency is verified. As a PMD compensation scheme, in this paper, a polarization controller (PC) is used and the performance of two systems with and without PC is compared. Results show that at a bit rate of 10 Gbps, for a DGD of 80 ps, power penalty can be improved by about 1.25 dB when using a polarization controller in the system.

Keywords

error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; BER curve; DGD; PC; PMD compensation scheme; bit error rate; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; differential group delay; eye diagram; high bit-rate fiber-optic transmission system; mutual consistency; polarization controller; polarization mode dispersion effects; power penalty; system performance; time 80 ps; Differential Group Delay (DGD); Optical Transmission; Polarization Controller (PC); Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD); Power Penalty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical & Computer Engineering (ICECE), 2012 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1434-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECE.2012.6471480

Filename

6471480