Title

Polarization-mode dispersion of a circulating loop

Authors

Authors

T. I. Lakoba; C. Dorrer;D. N. Maywar

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B-Opt. Phys.

Keywords

OPTICAL-FIBERS; TRANSMISSION; Optics

Abstract

We derive an analytic expression for the evolution of the differential group delay (DGD) in a fiber-optic circulating loop. We distill a simple analytic solution for the average DGD and show that it accumulates approximately linearly with transmission distance. The scaling of this linear function is confirmed experimentally using a long-haul fiber-optic transmission test-bed. This result is contrasted with DGD accumulation in a long straight-line transmission system, where the average DGD accumulates as a square root of the system's length. (C) 2004 Optical Society of America.

Journal Title

Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics

Volume

21

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

243

Last Page

248

WOS Identifier

WOS:000188779000002

ISSN

0740-3224

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