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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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Author(s)

Paul A. Williams, Tasshi Dennis

Abstract

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
Volume
22
Issue
5

Keywords

Coherent detection, linear optical sampling, optical performance monitoring, PMD, polarization-mode dispersion

Citation

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 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created March 1, 2010, Updated February 19, 2017