Time-resolved performance analysis of a second-order PMD compensator |
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| Authors: | Neukirch U. Hempstead M. Piech G. Yihong Mauro Mlejnek M. Soulliere M.J. Webb M. Pikula D. Hoyt R. Anderegg M. Dailey M. Feiling Wang Drewnowski C. Sobiski D. |
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| Affiliation: | Corning Inc., NY, USA; |
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| Abstract: | Design, test, and performance requirement and analysis for a polarization-mode-dispersion compensator (PMDC) with four degrees of freedom is presented. The performance is analyzed on the basis of time-integrated and time-resolved bit-error ratio (BER) measurements. Signal impairments are generated by both, first- and higher-order emulators. The probability distributions of bit errors measured over many one second intervals exhibit very long tails. Therefore even a PMDC with a good average BER performance may result in a significant total outage time for a given system. |
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