A fast and accurate method for evaluating joint second-order PMD statistics

Author

Forestieri, Enrico

Author_Institution

Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna di Studi Univ. e di Perfezionamento, Pisa, Italy

Volume

21

Issue

11

fYear

2003

Firstpage

2942

Lastpage

2952

Abstract

A fast and efficient way for evaluating the joint probability density function of the polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) vector derivative components parallel and orthogonal to the PMD vector itself is presented. This allows for a fully analytical evaluation of outage probabilities, overcoming thus the limitation of the Monte Carlo method, which do not allow for reliable evaluation of probabilities smaller than about 10^-4.

Keywords

Bessel functions; importance sampling; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; statistical distributions; wavelength division multiplexing; Bessel function; Maxwellian distribution; characteristic function; differential-group-delay events; double integral; importance sampling; joint PDF; joint second-order statistics; optical fiber communications; outage probabilities; polarization-mode dispersion statistics; vector derivative components; Discrete event simulation; Monte Carlo methods; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical retarders; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability density function; Random number generation; Statistics; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2003.819865

Filename

1251120