Abstract
We report for the first time the full experimental assessment of an adaptive PMD compensator at 40Gb/s over realistic PMD statistics. Results, consolidated by numerical simulations, show that the PMD limit is raised from 4 to 8ps with the compensator.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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