PMD Tolerance Testing of a Commercial Communication System Using a Spectral Polarimeter

Wang, S.X.; Weiner, Andrew M.; Foo, S.; Bownass, David; Moyer, M.; O’Sullivan, Maurice; Birk, Martin; Boroditsky, M.

doi:10.1109/jlt.2006.883637

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“…Our laboratory has recently developed a novel wavelength-parallel polarimeter [4,5], which provides unique capabilities for highspeed (millisecond time scale) characterization of frequency-dependent PMD. The wavelength-parallel polarimeter has been successfully applied to monitor frequency-dependent states of polarization (polarization string lengths) in a commercial 10 Gbit=s WDM optical transmission system [6]. This experiment demonstrated a tight correlation between the string length [7] and PMD-induced bit error rates, thereby providing evidence for polarization string length as an effective parameter for in-service PMD monitoring.…”

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Polarization mode dispersion spectrum measurement via high-speed wavelength-parallel polarimetry

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Appl. Opt.

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We report experiments in which wavelength-parallel spectral polarimetry technology is used for measurement of the frequency-dependent polarization mode dispersion (PMD) vector. Experiments have been performed using either a grating spectral disperser, configured to provide 13.6 GHz spectral resolution over a 14 nm optical bandwidth, or a virtually imaged phased array spectral disperser, configured for 1.6 GHz spectral resolution over a 200 GHz band. Our results indicate that the spectral polarimetry data obtained via this approach are of sufficient quality to permit accurate extraction of the PMD spectrum. The wavelength-parallel spectral polarimetry approach allows data acquisition within a few milliseconds.

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