• DocumentCode
    1214685
  • Title

    Outage probabilities for fiber routes with finite number of degrees of freedom

  • Author

    Boroditsky, Misha ; Brodsky, Misha ; Frigo, Nicholas J. ; Magill, Peter ; Antonelli, Cristian ; Mecozzi, Antonio

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Labs.-Res., Middletown, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    17
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    345
  • Lastpage
    347
  • Abstract
    We numerically study polarization-mode dispersion in fiber routes with a finite number of degrees of freedom, show that individual channels in such systems exhibit a non-Maxwellian differential group delay distribution, and analyze the resulting statistics of outage probabilities. We show that a significant number of channels in such systems will be outage-free for long time periods.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; probability; statistical analysis; degrees of freedom; fiber routes; nonMaxwellian differential group delay distribution; outage probabilities; outage-free channels; polarization-mode dispersion; statistical analysis; Delay; Frequency; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability; Space heating; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Optical fiber communication; outage probability; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2004.840022
  • Filename
    1386310