Impact of chirping on polarization-mode dispersion compensated systems |
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| Authors: | Lanne S. Penninckx D. Thiery J.-P. Hamaide J.-P. |
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| Affiliation: | Corporate Res. Centre, Marcoussis, France; |
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| Abstract: | Investigates the effect of chirp, resulting from either the transmitter, chromatic dispersion, or Kerr effect in the fiber, on polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) compensated systems. We demonstrate both experimentally and numerically the deleterious impact of chirping on systems with first-order PMD compensation. We present a way to optimize the PMD compensator performance by minimizing the total chirp of the signal at the receiver side. |
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