Title :
A geometrical model of polarization mode dispersion
Author_Institution :
Newman Springs Lab., AT&T Labs. Res., Red Bank, NJ, USA
Abstract :
A geometrical model of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) develops the PMD dynamical equations from first principles instead of phenomenologically and is extensible to polarization dependent loss. The utility of the geometrical approach is demonstrated by analyzing a fiber model with retarder plates forming a Markov process.
Keywords :
birefringence; optical fiber communication; optical fiber dispersion; optical fiber polarization; optical fiber theory; Markov process; PMD dynamical equations; fiber model; geometrical approach; geometrical model; polarization dependent loss; polarization mode dispersion; retarder plates; Birefringence; Equations; Frequency; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber polarization; Optical retarders; Optical sensors; Polarization mode dispersion; Solid modeling; Springs;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2000
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-630-3
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2000.868280
