This paper reports on an experiment about a novel method of polarization stabilization. The polarization stabilizer proposed here has an additional function of polarization transformation from any state of polarization into any others. The particle swarm optimization is introduced as a control algorithm in the process of either searching or endless tracking. The tracking speed of the stabilizer is obtained up to 12.6 krad/s by using hardware we have in the laboratory, which means that we can achieve a higher speed practical polarization stabilizer if we have faster hardware.
A new cross-tracking method is proposed to improve the convergent speed of the control algorithm in real-time polarization mode dispersion（PMD）compensation systems.The cross-tracking algorithm is compared with the previously used dithering particle swarm optimization（DPSO）and gradient particle swarm optimization（GPSO）algorithms,and it is proven to offer the best performance among the three algorithms.The transmission of a 43-Gb/s differential quadrature phase-shift keying（DQPSK）signal over a 1 200-km fiber span using a compensator based on digital signal processing（DSP）is demonstrated via the cross-tracking algorithm.
The adaptive polarization mode dispersion(PMD) compensation in high-speed transmission system has become more and more necessary for the link PMD causing strong signal distortions.A dynamic adaptive PMD compensator in 40 Gb/s polar-multiplex differential quadrature phase shift keying(PM-DQPSK) system is reported.Experimental results show that the PMD compensator can track the average polarization state variation at 65 rad/s without any lost of the optimum tracking.The 1st-order PMD compensation is demonstrated experimentally,and the compensator can increase the maximal tolerable PMD value by 26 ps from 17 ps to 43 ps in an optical transmission system.
