Electronic compensation of PMD and chromatic dispersion with an IC in 10Gbit/s transmission system
11 May 2000
A system experiment is reported in which polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) and chromatic dispersion (CD) compensation was achieved using an SiGe IC linear equaliser, with a transmission rate of 10Gbit/s over 95km of standard singlemode fibre (DL = 1600ps/nm). Full equalisation was obtained, with a differential group delay (DGD) of 65ps and a penalty reduction to 3.4dB for DGD = 100ps.