Differential group delay monitoring used as feedforward information for polarization mode dispersion compensation

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1463-1465

  Yan, L S ^a,b   Yu, Q ^a,b,c   Sahin, A B ^a,b   Willner, A E ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c Scintera Networks   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential group delay; Optical communications; Optical polarization; Polarization mode dispersion

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL GROUP DELAY MONITORING; FEEDFORWARD INFORMATION; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION; POLARIZATION SCRAMBLER;

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MODULATORS; OPTICAL LINKS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0036772942     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.802088     Document Type: Article

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