Monitoring PMD-induced penalty and other system performance metrics via a high-speed spectral polarimeter

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1753-1755

  Wang, Shawn X ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a   Boroditsky, Misha ^b   Brodsky, Misha ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical fiber communications; Polarimetry; Polarization mode dispersion (PMD); System performance

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; POLARIMETERS;

CARRIER-FREQUENCY DRIFT; POLARIZATION-MODE DISPERSION; SPECTRAL POLARIZATION MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33747598726     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.880779     Document Type: Article

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