Combined effect of DGD and PDL evaluated in field testbed for 128-Gb/s PDM-QPSK signal

Authors :: Kunihiko Mori
Mitsunori Fukutoku
Tomoyoshi Kataoka
Masahito Tomizawa
Y. Sakamaki
Toshikazu Sakano
Takeshi Kawai
Yutaka Miyamoto
Ayako Iwaki
Shogo Yamanaka
Shuto Yamamoto
Masahiro Suzuki
Hiroto Kawakami
T. Ono
Tetsuro Inui
Source :: 2012 17th Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference.
Publication Year :: 2012
Publisher :: IEEE, 2012.
Abstract: We experimentally investigated the combined effect of DGD and PDL in installed fibers for the first time. The experimental results show that the Q-factor variation caused by PDL decreases as the DGD value increases.

Subjects :: Optics
Materials science
Field (physics)
business.industry
Testbed
Optical performance monitoring
business
Signal
Phase-shift keying

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