Polarization-mode dispersion in high-speed fiber-optic transmission systems

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2204-2219

  Sunnerud, Henrik ^a   Karlsson, Magnus ^a   Xie, Chongjin ^a,b   Andrekson, Peter A ^a,c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c CENiX Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

160 Gb s; 40 Gb s; Compensation; Data formats; Dispersion managed (DM) solitons; Equalization; Fiber optic communication; Forward error correction; Impairments; Mitigation; Nonreturn to zero (NRZ); Outage probability; Polarization mode dispersion (PMD); Power margin; Pulse broadening; Return to zero (RZ); Solitons; Transmission; Ultrahigh bit rates

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ERROR CORRECTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SOLITONS;

DATA FORMATS; FIBER-OPTIC TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION; NONRETURN TO ZERO; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; POLARIZATION-MODE DISPERSION; POWER MARGIN; PULSE BROADENING; ULTRAHIGH BIT-RATES;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0037005324     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2002.806765     Document Type: Article

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