Deterministic approach to first- and second-order PMD compensation

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1270-1272

  Phua, P B ^b   Haus, H A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical communication; Polarization mode dispersion compensation

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION (PMD);

BANDWIDTH; DISPERSION (WAVES); LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0036743139     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.801081     Document Type: Article

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