Abstract
PMD of existing fibers impairs transmission at ≥10 Gb/s. We present a 43 ps PMD compensator in X-cut, Y-propagation LiNbO3 with cascaded TE-TM converters and demonstrate successful operation at 20 Gb/s.
© 1999 Optical Society of America
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