Long-term automatic PMD compensation for 160 Gbit/s RZ transmission

M. Westlund, H. Sunnerud, J. Li, Jonás Hansryd, Magnus Karlsson, Per Olof Hedekvist, Peter A. Andrekson

Electronics Letters · 2002 · 17 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

Successful demonstration of long-term (10 h) 160 Gbit/s RZ transmission with automatic polarisation-mode dispersion (PMD) compensation is reported. When the double-stage PMD compensator was applied the signal quality (Q-value) was kept sufficiently large at all times, compared with the uncompensated case. The statistical performance of the PMD compensator was also verified numerically.

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