Accelerated Testing of Polarization-Tracking Receiver Using Polarization Scrambler with Peaked Speed Distribution

Conference: Photonische Netze - 17. ITG-Fachtagung
05/12/2016 - 05/13/2016 at Leipzig, Deutschland

Proceedings: Photonische Netze

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Koch, Benjamin; Noe, Reinhold (University Paderborn, EIM-E & Novoptel GmbH, EIM-E,, Warburger Str. 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany)
Mirvoda, Vitali; Sandel, David (University Paderborn, EIM-E, Warburger Str. 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany)

Abstract:
We investigate speed distributions of rotating-waveplate polarization scramblers and choose peaked ones for experimental testing of an optical polarization tracker, accelerated up to 100 times over customary ones. Coherent receivers profit from the same procedure.