A tunable interferometrically stable three-section higher order PMD emulator

Authors :: C. Yeh
Jeffrey H. Sinsky
Y. Shi
Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar
Lothar Möller
Lawrence L. Buhl
S.X. Yao
Source :: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 15:230-232
Publication Year :: 2003
Publisher :: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2003.
Abstract: We have developed a technique for emulating higher order polarization mode dispersion (PMD) that utilizes a three-section interferometrically stable configuration. Using this approach, we are able to study the impact of higher order PMD on 10-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero and carrier-suppressed return-to-zero signals when first-order PMD is zero, which is a typical condition that occurs in one-stage optical PMD compensators.