Polarization-mode dispersion emulation with Maxwellian lengths and importance sampling

Author

Biondini, Gino ; Kath, William L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Sci. & Appl. Math., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA

Volume

16

Issue

3

fYear

2004

fDate

3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

789

Lastpage

791

Abstract

We describe an efficient polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) emulation method that combines a concatenation of birefringent sections having Maxwellian-distributed lengths with importance sampling. The method generates PMD statistics with accurate tail distributions using relatively few sections and reasonable numbers of samples, and allows the targeting of specific, arbitrarily large, first- and second-order PMD values.

Keywords

birefringence; importance sampling; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; statistical distributions; Maxwellian lengths; Maxwellian-distributed lengths; Monte Carlo simulation; PMD statistics; birefringent sections; efficient PMD emulation; first-order PMD values; importance sampling; optical fiber communications; polarization-mode dispersion emulation; second-order PMD values; tail distributions; Birefringence; Emulation; Hardware; Maxwell equations; Monte Carlo methods; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.823739

Filename

1269796