TY - GEN
T1 - The ultimate cost of PDL in fiber-optic systems
AU - Nafta, A.
AU - Shtaif, M.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - We study polarization dependent loss (PDL) in optical communications systems. The degradation in the ultimate achievable performance is considered in terms of the reduction in channel capacity and quantified in terms of the equivalent reduction in signal to noise ratio (SNR). The analysis provides guidelines for the tolerable amounts of PDL in ultimately designed systems.
AB - We study polarization dependent loss (PDL) in optical communications systems. The degradation in the ultimate achievable performance is considered in terms of the reduction in channel capacity and quantified in terms of the equivalent reduction in signal to noise ratio (SNR). The analysis provides guidelines for the tolerable amounts of PDL in ultimately designed systems.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85088183431&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1364/cleo.2009.cmc2
DO - 10.1364/cleo.2009.cmc2
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AN - SCOPUS:85088183431
SN - 9781557528698
T3 - Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
BT - Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2009
PB - Optical Society of America (OSA)
T2 - Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2009
Y2 - 31 May 2009 through 5 June 2009
ER -