Statistics of PMD-induced power fading for double sideband and single sideband subcarrier-multiplexed signals

摘要

We experimentally and numerically compare the statistics of power fading for DSB and SSB subcarrier-multiplexed signals under high PMD conditions (average DGD ～40 ps) with and without dynamic first-order PMD compensation. We find that both SSB-SCM and DSB-SCM signals exhibit similar sensitivity to PMD-induced power fading. First-order compensation reduces the worst case fading penalty by ～20 dB.