ELECTROOPTIC POLARIZATION SCRAMBLERS FOR OPTICALLY AMPLIFIED LONG-HAUL TRANSMISSION-SYSTEMS

Authors
HEISMANN F GRAY DA LEE BH SMITH RW
Citation
F. Heismann et al., ELECTROOPTIC POLARIZATION SCRAMBLERS FOR OPTICALLY AMPLIFIED LONG-HAUL TRANSMISSION-SYSTEMS, IEEE photonics technology letters, 6(9), 1994, pp. 1156-1158
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE photonics technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
6
Issue
9
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1156 - 1158
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1994)6:9<1156:EPSFOA>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
To combat polarization hole burning in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, we modulate the input polarization state to a 8800-km long 5.33-Gb/s N RZ transmission system at rates between 10 kHz and 10 GHz using integr ated-optic polarization scramblers in lithium niobate. At modulation f requencies of 40 kHz and 10.66 GHz, we observe improvements in the sig nal-to-noise ratio of the received electrical signal of 4 and 5 dB, re spectively.