DocumentCode
814552
Title
First-order PMD outage for the hinge model
Author
Kogelnik, H. ; Winzer, P.J. ; Nelson, L.E. ; Jopson, R.M. ; Boroditsky, M. ; Brodsky, M.
Author_Institution
Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Volume
17
Issue
6
fYear
2005
fDate
6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1208
Lastpage
1210
Abstract
System outage due to first-order polarization-mode dispersion of links obeying the hinge model is analyzed using outage maps. We find that some fraction of the wavelength-division-multiplexed fiber capacity does not meet any outage specification.
Keywords
optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; probability; wavelength division multiplexing; first-order PMD outage; hinge model; optical fiber communication; outage maps; outage probability; polarization-mode dispersion; system outage; wavelength-division-multiplexed fiber capacity; Bit error rate; Fasteners; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability; Signal to noise ratio; Statistics; Wavelength division multiplexing; 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.2005.846940
Filename
1432778
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