• 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