Simplified Calculation of System Outage Caused by Polarization-Mode Dispersion

Author

Heffner, Brian L.

Author_Institution

StrataLight Commun., Los Gatos, CA

Volume

20

Issue

12

fYear

2008

fDate

6/15/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1069

Lastpage

1071

Abstract

Measuring system outage probability using known combinations of first- and second-order polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) is a powerful technique that has been difficult to implement due to the obstacle of approximating the joint probability density function (PDF) of PMD. We describe a closed-form approximation to this joint PDF in terms of elementary functions and assess its accuracy by comparison with a previous numerical integration and by comparing marginalizations of the approximation to known theoretical distributions. We then present a simple calculation of PMD-induced outage probability based upon measured performance.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; Monte Carlo methods; optical fiber communication; polarization-mode dispersion; probability density function; system outage; Bit rate; Discrete event simulation; Histograms; Monte Carlo methods; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability density function; Time measurement; Monte Carlo methods; 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.2008.924295

Filename

4531614