Penalties due to PMD in 4x40-Gbit/s WDM systems

Hongxiang Wang; Wenyu Zhao; Lan Wang; Yuefeng Ji

doi:10.1117/12.480589

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23 August 2002 Penalties due to PMD in 4x40-Gbit/s WDM systems

Hongxiang Wang, Wenyu Zhao, Lan Wang, Yuefeng Ji

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Proceedings Volume 4906, Optical Components and Transmission Systems; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480589
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications 2002, 2002, Shanghai, China

Abstract

Based on the segmented bi-refringent fiber model, the penalties due to PMD, GVD and nonlinearity effects in 4x400bit/s WDM systems is calculated by solving the coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equation in bi-refringent fiber with split-step Fourier method for different PMD values in this paper. The simulation results show that in a WDM system the outage probability for one channel is not much larger than that in other channels. For PMD compensation in WDM system it runs a dangerous risk to only compensate the worst channel at a time, and it might be necessary to compensate all channels simultaneously.

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Hongxiang Wang, Wenyu Zhao, Lan Wang, and Yuefeng Ji "Penalties due to PMD in 4x40-Gbit/s WDM systems", Proc. SPIE 4906, Optical Components and Transmission Systems, (23 August 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480589

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