Le. Nelson et al., Measurement of depolarization and scaling associated with second-order polarization mode dispersion in optical fibers, IEEE PHOTON, 11(12), 1999, pp. 1614-1616
The Muller matrix method enables the low-noise, high-resolution measurement
of second-order polarization-mode-dispersion (PMD) depolarization and rela
ted parameters required for systems modeling. We report experimental observ
ations of second-order PMD statistical dependencies and scaling for fibers
with mean differential group delay (DGD) ranging from 1.3 to 17.0 ps. Measu
rements of 10 different fibers confirm that the depolarization scales with
the mean DGD while the polarization-dependent chromatic dispersion scales w
ith the square of the mean DGD.