Effects of Partially Polarized Noise in a Receiver

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5184-3695
 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0269-8433

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2003-03-23

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Sun, Y., I. Lima, A. Lima, H. Jiao, J. Zweck, L. Yan, C. Menyuk, and G. Carter. "Effects of Partially Polarized Noise in a Receiver". In Optical Fiber Communication Conference (2003), Paper MF82, MF82. Optica Publishing Group, 2003. https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=OFC-2003-MF82.

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Polarization
Optical amplifiers
Numerical simulation
Optical systems
Q factor
Optical filters
UMBC Computational Photonics Lab
UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory

Abstract

We compare back-to-back experiments to an accurate receiver model and an analytical formula for the Q-factor distribution. We show that even for a fixed SNR, partially polarized noise can cause a large variation in system performance.