Long-term measurement of PMD and polarization drift in installed fibers
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2000

We report the most detailed long-term measurement of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) made to date. We measured two separate fibers under the same time period, which makes it possible to compare the drift properties of two similar fibers in the same environment. The measured Jones matrices suffers from both random and systematic errors, a generic problem which we discuss in detail and solve. The results confirmed the well-known statistical properties of the PMD-vector. Furthermore, the drift averaged over wavelength is very well (96%) correlated between the two fibers. We finally quantified the temporal drift by computing the autocorrelation function of the PMD-vector analytically, both with respect to wavelength and to drift time. The analytical theory shows good agreement with the measurements.

Författare

Magnus Karlsson

Institutionen för mikroelektronik

Jonas Brentel

Institutionen för mikroelektronik

Peter Andrekson

Institutionen för mikroelektronik

Journal of Lightwave Technology

0733-8724 (ISSN) 1558-2213 (eISSN)

Vol. 18 7 941-951

Ämneskategorier

Telekommunikation

Atom- och molekylfysik och optik

Den kondenserade materiens fysik

DOI

10.1109/50.850739

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