title: Scheme for feed-forward polarization mode dispersion compensation.
abstract: We propose a feed-forward polarization mode dispersion (PMD) compensator with three segments that is capable of compensating for the first- and second-order PMD in a transmission fiber. All control parameters are analytically obtained by the PMD concatenated rules. The influence of all possible perturbations on the compensation is investigated with Monte Carlo simulations. The main advantage of our PMD compensation module over the models reported so far is that it shows excellent robustness to all possible perturbations.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement and Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Houxun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Miao
authors.forename: Changxi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yang