Demonstration of a faraday polarization controller for PMD mitigation and a bragg-grating-based fault surveillance scheme for long-haul transmission system.

Sun Po-Wan.Thesis submitted in: October 2002.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-70).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Lightwave Transmission System --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- PMD-induced Degradation in System Penalty --- p.1Chapter 1.3 --- A Device Mitigating Distortion Caused By Polarization-Mode Dispersion --- p.3Chapter 1.4 --- The Need For A Surveillance Scheme --- p.4Chapter 1.5 --- A Scalable Non-Intrusive Surveillance Scheme for Long-Haul Transmission --- p.5Chapter 1.6 --- Outline of the Thesis --- p.6Chapter Chapter 2 --- A Device for Mitigation of First-Order Polarization-Mode Dispersion --- p.7Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.7Chapter 2.2 --- Origin of Polarization-Mode Dispersion --- p.7Chapter 2.3 --- Polarization-Mode Coupling --- p.9Chapter 2.4 --- Statistical Characteristics of Polarization-Mode Dispersion --- p.11Chapter 2.5 --- Common Schemes of PMD Compensation --- p.15Chapter 2.6 --- A Proposed Design of Faraday Polarization Controller for First-Order PMD Mitigation --- p.20Chapter 2.7 --- Theory of Magnetooptic Effects --- p.25Chapter 2.8 --- Compact Size of Faraday Polarization Controller --- p.28Chapter 2.9 --- Characterization of Faraday Polarization Controller --- p.31Chapter 2.9.1 --- Polarization State of FPC Output Against Input Current --- p.31Chapter 2.9.2 --- Frequency Response of Faraday Polarization Controller --- p.38Chapter 2.9.3 --- Use and Calibration of Polarimeter --- p.40Chapter 2.10 --- Summary --- p.43Chapter Chapter 3 --- Performance Evaluation of the Proposed Device in Mitigation of PMD-induced Distortion --- p.45Chapter 3.1 --- System Impairment and Power Penalty Due to First-Order PMD --- p.46Chapter 3.2 --- An Experiment for Testing PMD Compensation Capability of the Proposed Device --- p.47Chapter 3.3 --- Experimental Results --- p.50Chapter 3.4 --- Summary --- p.52Chapter Chapter 4 --- A Scalable Non-intrusive Surveillance Scheme for Long-Haul WDM Transmission --- p.53Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.53Chapter 4.2 --- Various Fault Surveillance Methods --- p.54Chapter 4.3 --- Limited Scalability of Previous Surveillance Schemes --- p.55Chapter 4.4 --- Principle of the Proposed Scheme --- p.56Chapter 4.5 --- Experimental Results --- p.58Chapter 4.6 --- Summary --- p.62Chapter Chapter 5 --- p.64Chapter 5.1 --- Conclusion --- p.64Chapter 5.2 --- Future Work --- p.65Bibliography --- p.6