Pulse distortion induced by polarization-mode dispersion and polarization-dependent loss in lightwave transmission systems

Author

Xie, Chongjin ; Mollenauer, Linn F. ; Möller, Lothar

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

15

Issue

8

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1073

Lastpage

1075

Abstract

The combined effects of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) and polarization-dependent loss (PDL) on pulse broadening in optical transmission links for both PMD uncompensated and compensated systems are investigated by numerical simulation. It is shown that, when PDL is large, PDL considerably reduces the efficiency of PMD compensation, which, we find, is mainly due to the increased higher order PMD caused by the combined effects of PMD and PDL, as well as nonorthogonal principal states of polarization.

Keywords

compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; PDL; PMD compensated systems; PMD compensation; PMD uncompensated systems; lightwave transmission systems; nonorthogonal principal states of polarization; optical transmission links; polarization-dependent loss; polarization-mode dispersion; pulse broadening; pulse distortion; Histograms; Numerical simulation; Optical distortion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical losses; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Page description languages; Polarization mode dispersion; Propagation losses;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.814872

Filename

1215507