• DocumentCode
    449078
  • Title

    A statistical theory of PMD-induced power penalty

  • Author

    Antonelli, C. ; Mecozzi, A. ; Cornick, K. ; Boroditsky, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., L´´Aquila Univ., Italy
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    25-29 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    337
  • Abstract
    We derive an analytical expression for the PMD-induced pulse broadening, given the PMD vector at centre frequency, and show it can be used for an accurate prediction of the experimentally observed PMD-induced power penalty.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; statistical analysis; PMD vector; PMD-induced power penalty; polarization-mode dispersion; pulse broadening; statistical theory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    IET
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-86341-543-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1576270