title: Chebyshev and Taylor approximations of polarization mode dispersion for improved compensation bandwidth.
abstract: We examine a series of experimentally realizable procedures for wide-bandwidth polarization mode dispersion compensation based on Taylor and Chebyshev approximations to the transfer matrix for light polarization in optical fibers. Our results demonstrate that a symmetric ordering of compensator elements in the Taylor procedure improves performance and that methods based on the Chebyshev approximation can significantly widen the compensation bandwidth.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada. yevick@uwaterloo.ca
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yevick
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chanachowicz
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reimer
authors.forename: Maurice
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: O'Sullivan
authors.forename: Weihong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lu