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Techniques and systems for mitigating polarization-related signal degradation or distortions in birefringent optical links based on intra-bit polarization diversity modulation.
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Techniques for monitoring frequency-dependent parameter and optical property such as optical dispersion in a modulated optical signal with sidebands based on optical vestigial sideband filtering. Monitoring implementations for both chromatic dispersion and polarization-mode dispersion are described as examples.
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Techniques and devices for compensating dispersion-induced power fading in a double-sideband optical signal based on a tunable optical dispersion element.
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Wideband optical amplifiers that use two parallel amplifiers in different operating spectral ranges and two different or identical sampled Bragg gratings as the channel splitter and combiner.
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Techniques and devices for compensating polarization-mode dispersion in an optical signal by using a nonlinearly-chirped Bragg grating in a dual-pass configuration.
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A multi-wavelength optical signal copropagates through a fiber-optic communication link with a continuous-wave ancillary wavelength having an unknown state of polarization (SOP), which is scrambled periodically in time. The instantaneous value of polarization dependent loss (PDL) in the ancillary wavelength is monitored in real time, and is used as an error signal to adjust at least one polarization controller. Polarization scrambling is performed by periodically changing the SOP with time, such that the polarization-scrambled optical signal covers approximately an entire Poincaré sphere surface, preferably uniformly, during each time period. At an optical node between fibers, an adjustable PDL compensator contains two ordered pairs each consisting of one polarization controller and one optical element introducing fixed PDL.
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Techniques and devices for controlling or compensating for both the first-order and high-order PMD effects in an optical signal by processing the signal in a fixed DGD stage and a variable DGD stage in sequence.
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Methods and systems used to perform sweep-free stimulated Brillouin scattering-based fiber optical sensing are described. In one aspect, a method includes interrogating different parts of a Brillouin gain spectrum using multiple optical tones in an optical fiber. The interrogating includes sending at least two pump tones into the optical fiber from one end of the optical fiber, such that a frequency spacing between the pump tones is larger than a width of the Brillouin gain spectrum. The interrogating also includes sending at least two probe tones into the optical fiber from another end of the optical fiber, such that a frequency spacing between the probe tones is different from the frequency spacing between the pump tones. The method further includes generating a sensing output based on the interrogating.
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Methods and systems for implementing polarization division multiplexing to allow recovery of data in different multiplexed channels at a receiving end without recovering multiplexed polarizations used in the transmitting stage.