ASSESSMENT OF SYSTEM PENALTIES INDUCED BY POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION IN A 5 GB S OPTICALLY AMPLIFIED TRANSOCEANIC LINK/

Authors
BRUYERE F AUDOUIN O
Citation
F. Bruyere et O. Audouin, ASSESSMENT OF SYSTEM PENALTIES INDUCED BY POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION IN A 5 GB S OPTICALLY AMPLIFIED TRANSOCEANIC LINK/, IEEE photonics technology letters, 6(3), 1994, pp. 443-445
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE photonics technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
6
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
443 - 445
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1994)6:3<443:AOSPIB>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
The system penalties induced by Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) in a 5 Gb/s optically amplified link are analyzed. A relation between dif ferential group delays and system penalties is obtained from numerical simulations and used to derive analytic formulas for probability dens ity functions of system penalties. Cumulated probabilities show that P MDs higher than 20 ps can induce significant fluctuations of the Bit-E rror-Rate (BER). Characterization of a 6,200 km optically amplified li nk indicates that the relative contribution of PMD to these fluctuatio ns is not significant when PMD is limited to 0.1 ps/square-root km.