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IEC TR 61282-9 Edition 2.0 2016-03 TECHNICAL REPORT Fibre optic communication system design guides Part 9:Guidance on polarization mode dispersion measurements and theory IEC TR 61282-9:2016-03(en)colourinside THIS PUBLICATION IS COPYRIGHT PROTECTED Copyright 2016 IEC,Geneva,Switzerland All rights reserved.Unless otherwise specified,no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopying and microfilm,without permission in writing from either IEC or IECs member National Committee in the country of the requester.If you have any questions about IEC copyright or have an enquiry about obtaining additional rights to this publication,please contact the address below or your local IEC member National Committee for further information.IEC Central Office Tel.:+41 22 919 02 11 3,rue de Varemb Fax:+41 22 919 03 00 CH-1211 Geneva 20 infoiec.ch Switzerland www.iec.ch About the IEC The International Electrotechnical Commission(IEC)is the leading global organization that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical,electronic and related technologies.About IEC publications The technical content of IEC publications is kept under constant review by the IEC.Please make sure that you have the latest edition,a corrigenda or an amendment might have been published.IEC Catalogue-webstore.iec.ch/catalogue The stand-alone application for consulting the entire bibliographical information on IEC International Standards,Technical Specifications,Technical Reports and other documents.Available for PC,Mac OS,Android Tablets and iPad.IEC publications search-www.iec.ch/searchpub The advanced search enables to find IEC publications by a variety of criteria(reference number,text,technical committee,).It also gives information on projects,replaced and withdrawn publications.IEC Just Published-webstore.iec.ch/justpublished Stay up to date on all new IEC publications.Just Published details all new publications released.Available online and also once a month by email.Electropedia-www.electropedia.org The worlds leading online dictionary of electronic and electrical terms containing 20 000 terms and definitions in English and French,with equivalent terms in 15 additional languages.Also known as the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary(IEV)online.IEC Glossary-std.iec.ch/glossary 65 000 electrotechnical terminology entries in English and French extracted from the Terms and Definitions clause of IEC publications issued since 2002.Some entries have been collected from earlier publications of IEC TC 37,77,86 and CISPR.IEC Customer Service Centre-webstore.iec.ch/csc If you wish to give us your feedback on this publication or need further assistance,please contact the Customer Service Centre:csciec.ch.IEC TR 61282-9 Edition 2.0 2016-03 TECHNICAL REPORT Fibre optic communication system design guides Part 9:Guidance on polarization mode dispersion measurements and theory INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION ICS 33.180.01 ISBN 978-2-8322-3236-1 Registered trademark of the International Electrotechnical Commission Warning!Make sure that you obtained this publication from an authorized distributor.colourinside 2 IEC TR 61282-9:2016 IEC 2016 CONTENTS FOREWORD.4 INTRODUCTION.6 1 Scope.7 2 Normative references.7 3 Terms,definitions,and abbreviations.7 3.1 Terms and definitions.7 3.2 Abbreviations.8 4 Theoretical framework.8 4.1 Limitations and outline.8 4.2 Optical field and state of polarization.8 4.3 SOP measurements,Stokes vectors,and Poincar sphere rotations.11 4.4 First order polarization mode dispersion.14 4.5 Birefringence vector,concatenations,and mode coupling.16 4.6 The statistics of PMD and second order PMD.17 4.7 Managing time.20 5 Measurement methods.20 5.1 General.20 5.2 Stokes parameter evaluation.22 5.2.1 Equipment setup and procedure.22 5.2.2 Jones matrix eigenanalysis.23 5.2.3 Poincar sphere analysis.24 5.2.4 One ended measurements based on SPE 3.26 5.3 Phase shift based measurement methods.27 5.3.1 General.27 5.3.2 Modulation phase shift Full search.28 5.3.3 Modulation phase shift method Mueller set analysis 4.29 5.3.4 Polarization phase shift measurement method5.31 5.4 Interferometric measurement methods.33 5.4.1 General.33 5.4.2 Generalized interferometric method 6.35 5.4.3 Traditional interferometric measurement method.40 5.5 Fixed analyser.41 5.5.1 General.41 5.5.2 Extrema counting.42 5.5.3 Fourier transform.43 5.5.4 Cosine Fourier transform.44 5.5.5 Spectral differentiation.45 5.6 Wavelength scanning OTDR and SOP analysis(WSOSA)method 7.46 5.6.1 General.46 5.6.2 Continuous model.48 5.6.3 Large difference model.49 5.6.4 Scrambling factor derivation.50 6 Limitations.53 6.1 General.53 6.2 Amplified spontaneous emission and degree of polarization.53 6.3 Polarization dependent loss(or gain).53 IEC TR 61282-9:2016 IEC 2016 3 6.4 Coherence effects and multiple path interference.54 6.5 Test lead fibres.54 6.6 Aerial cables testing.55 Bib