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Full PMD vector measured directly from modulated data using linear optical sampling

Published

Author(s)

Paul A. Williams, Tasshi Dennis

Abstract

We demonstrate a new technique to monitor the polarization-mode dispersion in a fiber communication channel by analyzing the modulated data at the fiber output measured with Polarization-Sensitive Linear Optical Sampling (PS-LOS).
Proceedings Title
IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals 2009
Conference Dates
July 20-22, 2009
Conference Location
Newport Beach, CA

Keywords

Linear optical sampling, network monitoring, PMD, Stokes vectors

Citation

Williams, P. and Dennis, T. (2009), Full PMD vector measured directly from modulated data using linear optical sampling, IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals 2009, Newport Beach, CA, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=902416 (Accessed March 19, 2024)
Created July 15, 2009, Updated February 19, 2017