Automatic PMD Compensation at 40 Gbit/s and 80 Gbit/s Using a 3-Dimensional DOP Evaluation for Feedback

1 January 2001

proceedings article
Published by Optica Publishing Group

p. PD27
https://doi.org/10.1364/ofc.2001.pd27

Abstract

We demonstrate that polarization scrambling combined with DOP evaluation enables PMD compensation without feedback fading due to varying input polarization. PMD of an installed fiber as well as PMD of an emulator was successfully compensated.

Keywords

POLARIMETRY
POLARIZATION-SELECTIVE DEVICES

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PMD compensation in 10 Gbit/s NRZ field experimentusing polarimetric error signal
Electronics Letters, 2000