Performance Degradation Due to Polarization Effects in a Dispersion-Managed-Soliton Recirculating Loop System

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 111-113

  Xie, Chongjin ^a   Grant, Andrew R ^a   Mollenauer, Linn F ^a   Liu, Xiang ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion managed (DM) solitons; Optical fiber communications; Optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR); Polarization; Polarization dependent loss (PDL); Polarization mode dispersion (PMD)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOLITONS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DISPERSION-MANAGED (DM) SOLITONS; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL-TO-NOISE (OSNR); POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION (PMD); POLARIZATION-DEPENDENT LOSS (PDL);

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 0346707350     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.819410     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. F. Bruyère and O. Audouin, "Penalties in long-haul optical amplifier systems due to polarization dependent loss and gain," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 6, pp. 654-656, May 1994.
2. E. Lichtman, "Limitations imposed by polarization-dependent gain and loss on all-optical ultralong communication systems," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 13, pp. 906-913, May 1995.
3. D. Wang and C. R. Menyuk, "Calculation of penalties due to polarization effects in a long-haul WDM system using a Stokes parameter model," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 19, pp. 487-494, Apr. 2001.
4. Y. Sun, I. T. Lima Jr., H. Jiao, J. Wen, H. Xu, H. Ereifej, G. M. Carter, and C. R. Menyuk, "Study of system performance in a 107-km dispersion-managed recirculating loop due to polarization effects," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 13, pp. 966-968, Sept. 2001.
5. L. S. Yan, Q. Yu, Y. Xie, and A. E. Willner, "Experimental demonstration of the system performance degradation due to the combined effect of polarization-dependent loss with polarization-mode dispersion," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 14, pp. 224-226, Feb. 2002.
6. C. D. Poole and D. L. Favin, "Polarization-mode dispersion measurements based on transmission spectra through a polarizer," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 12, pp. 917-929, June 1994.
7. C. Xu, C. Xie, and L. F. Mollenauer, "Analysis of soliton collisions in a wavelength-division-multiplexed dispersion-managed transmission system," Opt Lett., vol. 27, no, 15, pp. 1303-1305, 2002.
8. H. Sunnerud, J. Li, C. Xie, and P. A. Andrekson, "Experimental quantification of soliton robustness to polarization-mode dispersion in conventional and dispersion-managed systems," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 19, pp. 1453-1461, Oct. 2001.
9. C. Xie, M. Karlsson; P. A. Andrekson, H. Sunnerud, and J. Li, "Influences of polarization-mode dispersion on soliton transmission systems," IEEE J. Select. Topics Quantum Electron., vol. 8, pp. 575-590, May/June 2002.
10. L. F. Mollenauer, J. P. Gordon, and F. Heismann, "Polarization scattering by soliton-soliton collisions," Opt. Lett., vol. 20, no. 20, pp. 2060-2062, 1995.
11. L. Möller, L. Boivin, S. Chandrasekhar, and L. L. Buhl, "Setup for demonstration of cross channel-induced nonlinear PMD in WDM system," Electron. Lett., vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 306-308, 2001.
12. K.-P. Ho and C. Lin, "Performance analysis of optical transmission system with polarization-mode dispersion and forward error correction," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 9, pp. 1288-1290, Sept. 1997.