Williams, P.
and Dennis, T.
(2010),
Direct measurement of vector polarization-mode dispersion from repeated random data by use of linear optical sampling, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=903751
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Direct measurement of vector polarization-mode dispersion from repeated random data by use of linear optical sampling
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Polarization-dependent optical sampling techniques measure the complex electric field, allowing one to monitor the degrading effects of a communication channel. Here we show the ability to extract the polarization-mode dispersion of the transmission channel from a remote measurement of transmitted repeated 10-Gb/s differential phase-shift keying modulated data. This approach is independent of modulation format and data rate. We demonstrate results both with and without referencing to the laser phase.We achieve a differential group delay resolution of 0.2 ps for an unreferenced measurement.Citation
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
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22
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5
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Coherent detection, linear optical sampling, optical performance monitoring, PMD, polarization-mode dispersion
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