Polarization mode dispersion

About: Polarization mode dispersion is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5147 publications have been published within this topic receiving 80055 citations. The topic is also known as: PMD.

Optical dispersion compensator

Abstract: An optical signal is incident on a semiconductor optical waveguide with a grating (4) and is reflected or transmitted therethrough to thereby perform dispersion compensation. Application of an electric field or implantation of carriers can be effected in the optical waveguide by means of electrodes (5 and 6) attached in the optical waveguide. In addition, a temperature of the optical waveguide can be varied by a resistance heater (9). By using these measures, the dispersion compensation wavelength and the dispersion compensation intensity can be adjusted.

Dispersion and dispersion slope compensated fiber link

Abstract: Disclosed is a dispersion compensating waveguide fiber suitable for use in high data rate, high light power telecommunications systems of intermediate length. The refractive index profile of the compensation fiber is segmented. The core region includes three, four, or five, a central segment (28), a first annular segment (30), a second annular segment (32), a third annular segment (34), and a fourth annular segment (36) having different relative refractive indexes. The segment relative refractive indexes and radii are chosen to provide negative total dispersion and negative total dispersion slope over an extended wavelength range. The index profile design is flexible enough to provide compensated links having total dispersion that is positive, negative, or zero, while maintaining appropriate total dispersion slope compensation. In addition, the waveguide fiber of the invention may be cabled or otherwise buffered prior to its use in a communications system.

Experimental analysis of degenerate vector phase-sensitive amplification

Abstract: We comprehensively investigate a degenerate vector phase-sensitive amplifier (PSA). We determine the gain dependence on the relative phase and polarization angle between the pumps and the degenerate signal wave. The vector PSA is experimentally shown to be sensitive to the pump states of polarization (SOP) due to polarization mode dispersion in the fiber. However, the scheme performance agrees well with theory under specific pump SOPs and we achieve an on-off gain over 10 dB with a small deviation from the theoretically expected results. In comparison to the scalar scheme, the proposed vector scheme has larger tolerance for pump depletion due to four-wave mixing between pumps and generation of higher-order idlers.

Polarization mode dispersion measurement using a Sagnac interferometer and a comparison with the fixed analyzer method

Abstract: Polarization mode dispersion measurement using a Sagnac interferometer is compared with the well-known fixed analyzer technique both theoretically and experimentally. It is shown that in the case of weak mode coupling in the fiber the Sagnac interferometer method is equivalent to the fixed analyzer method but gives better readability of the measured optical spectrum. For strong mode coupling, we develop a theory that relates the differential group delay to the number of mean-level crossings in the measured spectrum.

Polarization mode dispersion measurement using phase-sensitive sideband detection

Abstract: A polarization mode dispersion (PMD) measuring arrangement utilizes a tapped-off portion of a signal that has experienced dispersion (such as, for example, propagating through a dispersive optical fiber). The measuring arrangement utilizes a phase-sensitive single sideband detection circuit in conjunction with a polarization beam splitter to generate magnitude and phase information for the lower and upper sidebands of each polarization of the received signal. The magnitude and phase information collected at a single frequency can be used to determine the polarization mode dispersion, eliminating the need to sweep the center frequency of the received optical signal to generate the PMD measurement.