Experimental verification of the penalty produced by polarization effects in fiber recirculating loops

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Lima, I. T., L.-S. Yan, B. S. Marks, C. R. Menyuk, and A. E. Willner. “Experimental Verification of the Penalty Produced by Polarization Effects in Fiber Recirculating Loops.” In Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (2003), Paper CThD2, CThD2. Optica Publishing Group, 2003. https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=CLEO-2003-CThD2.

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We use optical fiber recirculating loop experiments to validate a reduced Stokes model that allows us to compute the penalty produced by polarization effects in single-channel and wavelength-division multiplexed systems.