Title :
Duration of PMD-induced system outages
Author :
Antonelli, C. ; Mecozzi, Antonio ; Brodsky, Maryjane
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Ing. Elettr. e dell´Inf., Univ. Dell´Aquila, L´Aquila, Italy
Abstract :
We characterize the statistics of the system outage duration caused by polarization-mode dispersion. The numerical results are validated with experimental data obtained in an installed fiber system.
Keywords :
optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; PMD-induced system outages; polarization-mode dispersion; Autocorrelation; Birefringence; Fluctuations; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Polarization mode dispersion; Predictive models; Probability; Shape measurement; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528541
