Long-Term Observation of PMD and SOP on Installed Fiber Routes

We present 18 months of field observations on the state-of-polarization (SOP) and polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) on three routes monitored using deployed coherent 40 Gb/s transponders. Two fiber paths were monitored on each of three different routes, ranging from 30 km with one amplified span to...

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Published in:IEEE photonics technology letters 2014-02, Vol.26 (3), p.213-216
Main Authors: Woodward, Sheryl L., Nelson, Lynn E., Schneider, Charles R., Knox, Laurie A., O'Sullivan, Maurice, Laperle, Charles, Moyer, Michael, Foo, Sik
Format: Article
Language:English
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Correlation
Monitoring
Optical fiber amplifiers
Optical fiber cables
optical fiber communication
Optical fiber devices
Optical fiber dispersion
Optical fiber polarization
Optical fibers
optical polarization
polarization-mode dispersion
state-of-polarization
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Summary:We present 18 months of field observations on the state-of-polarization (SOP) and polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) on three routes monitored using deployed coherent 40 Gb/s transponders. Two fiber paths were monitored on each of three different routes, ranging from 30 km with one amplified span to 273 km with seven amplified spans. In general, the changes in SOP and PMD were slow, with the autocorrelation half-width-half-maxima ranging from 1.3 to 4.1 days for the differential-group-delay and from 0.18 to 1.7 days for the SOP. We observed the largest correlation of active periods between fiber paths sharing the same cable and weak correlation with fiber paths sharing an office. With over 10,000 hours of measurements spanning an 18-month period, we believe this to be the most extensive study published on the polarization behavior of buried fiber.
ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/LPT.2013.2290473