Title
Experimental and theoretical study on the symmetries of orthogonally polarized optical signals
Abstract
We perform theoretical analysis and systematic measurement of the degree-of-polarization and eye-closure penalty for optical signals with orthogonal polarizations. Both the theory and experiment show that the symmetry of the DOP is maintained for the orthogonal polarizations under both first and higher-order PMD, whereas the symmetry of eye-closure penalty is broken under second-order PMD. As a result, an orthogonal polarization pair can have large disparity of eye-closure penalty despite an identical degree-of-polarization. We also demonstrate a novel approach to estimate the maximum eye-closure penalty asymmetry with three orthogonal polarizations on the Poincare sphere.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/TCOMM.2009.0901.060464
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
radio frequency,second order,dispersion,optical fibers,higher order,optical communication,optical dispersion,polarization mode dispersion,rf signals,chromatic dispersion,indexing terms,degree of polarization,degradation
Optical fiber,Dispersion (optics),Orthogonal polarization spectral imaging,Computer science,Optical communication,Electronic engineering,Radio frequency,Polarization mode dispersion,Optical polarization,Asymmetry
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
57
1
0090-6778
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
William Shieh1168.55
Rongqing Hui223.78
Xingwen Yi333.80
Graeme Pendock441.16