Statistics of signal-to-noise ratio and path-accumulated power due to concatenation of polarization-dependent loss

Author

Yu, M. ; Kan, C. ; Lewis, M. ; Sizmann, A.

Author_Institution

Innovance Networks Inc., Piscataway, NJ, USA

Volume

14

Issue

10

fYear

2002

Firstpage

1418

Lastpage

1420

Abstract

The authors present analytical expressions for the signal and noise statistics due to the concatenation of a large number of low-polarization-dependent loss elements. By solving the governing stochastic differential equations, using perturbation methods for the cases with and without power stabilization, they obtain important bounds on signal-to-noise ratio fluctuations and other quantities for the design of agile long-haul fiber communication systems.

Keywords

differential equations; optical fibre communication; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; optical noise; stochastic processes; superradiance; agile long-haul fiber communication systems; amplified spontaneous emission noise; analytical expressions; design; governing stochastic differential equations; low-polarization-dependent loss elements; path-accumulated power; perturbation methods; polarization-dependent loss concatenation; power stabilization; signal-to-noise ratio fluctuations; signal-to-noise ratio statistics; Differential equations; Fluctuations; Perturbation methods; Polarization; Signal analysis; Signal to noise ratio; Statistical analysis; Statistics; Stochastic resonance; Stochastic systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.802384

Filename

1037536