Investigation of Polarization Mode Dispersion Influence to Different Optical Signal Modulation Formats

Seventh International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA 2012): Conference Proceedings 2012
Jurģis Poriņš, Ģirts Ivanovs, Andis Supe, Gunārs Cauņa

Increasing data rates in the fiber optics transmission systems leads to more new limiting factors which complicates the signal transmission. One of such factors is the optical fiber birefringence induced polarization mode dispersion (PMD). Although PMD value in typical standard single mode fiber is quite low (less than 0.2 ps/√km for ITU-T G.652D standard fiber) higher data rates sets higher requirements for signal quality. In this research comparison between three different modulation formats (traditional on-off keying, differential phase shift keying (DPSK) and polarization shift keying (PolSK)) is given at different optical fiber PMD levels and data transmission rates. It is found that most significant impact of PMD is to traditional on-off keying modulation format, but the best performance showed DPSK modulated signals.

Keywords
WDM, Polarization mode dispersion, optical signal modulation formats
DOI
10.1109/BWCCA.2012.54
Hyperlink
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6363070

Poriņš, J., Ivanovs, Ģ., Supe, A., Cauņa, G. Investigation of Polarization Mode Dispersion Influence to Different Optical Signal Modulation Formats. In: Seventh International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA 2012): Conference Proceedings, Canada, Victoria, 12-14 November, 2012. Piscataway: IEEE, 2012, pp.285-288. ISBN 978-0-7695-4842-5. Available from: doi:10.1109/BWCCA.2012.54

Publication language
English (en)