CD-insensitive PMD monitoring of an 80-Gb/s polarization-multiplexed RZ-DPSK channel using a polarizer and a low-speed detector
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Yang, J.-Y.; Zhang, L.; Yue, Y.; Christen, L. C.; Zhang, B.; Jackel, J.; Agarwal, A.; Paraschis, L.; Willner, A. E.
- Source
- 2009 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication Optical Fiber Communication, 2009 Conference on. :1-3 Mar, 2009
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal Processing and Analysis
Polarization
Monitoring
Radio frequency
Optical receivers
Optical sensors
Chromatic dispersion
Detectors
Power measurement
Frequency measurement
Optical fiber communication
(060.2330) Fiber optics communications
(060.2360) Fiber optics links and subsystems
- Language
We experimentally demonstrate a PMD monitoring technique utilizing the polarizer and low-speed detector for 80-Gb/s pol-muxed RZ-DPSK. RF power increment of 16.2 dB, insensitive to 0∼100 ps/nm chromatic dispersion, is measured in the presence of 0∼12 ps DGD.