Performance degradation due to polarisation dependent gain and loss in lightwave systems with optical amplifiers

28 October 1993

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 29 (22) , 1971-1972
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19931312

Abstract

Analytic expressions for the degradation of the mean system performance due to polarisation dependent loss (PDL) and polarisation dependent gain (PDG) are derived. For PDL values lower than 0.5 dB only a negligible change in the mean system performance is expected. PDG, on the other hand, is shown to cause a significant degradation of the system performance.

Keywords

OPTICAL LINKS
PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION
POLARISATION DEPENDENT GAIN
ER DOPED FIBRE AMPLIFIERS
OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS
LIGHTWAVE SYSTEMS
MEAN SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
EDFA
OPTICAL LOSSES
POLARISATION DEPENDENT LOSS
SYSTEM PERFORMANCE

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