The Effects of Distributed PMD, PDL, and Loop Scrambling on BER Distributions in a Recirculating Loop used to Emulate Long-Haul Terrestrial Transmission

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2003-03-23

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Xu, H., J. Wen, J. Zweck, L. Yan, C. Menyuk, and G. Carter. "The Effects of Distributed PMD, PDL, and Loop Scrambling on BER Distributions in a Recirculating Loop Used to Emulate Long-Haul Terrestrial Transmission". In Optical Fiber Communication Conference (2003), Paper TuO2, TuO2. Optica Publishing Group, 2003. https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=OFC-2003-TuO2.

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Optical amplifiers
Beam splitters
Polarization mode dispersion
Bit error rate
Distortion
Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
UMBC Computational Photonics Lab

Abstract

We demonstrate that, even for a long-haul recirculating loop system with low-PMD fiber, loop-synchronous polarization scrambling must be used for the performance to resemble that in a straight-line system. Otherwise, the BER can vary over four orders of magnitude.