Noncompliant Capacity Ratio for Systems With an Arbitrary Number of Polarization Hinges

Author

Li, Jinglai ; Biondini, Gino ; Kogelnik, Herwig ; Winzer, Peter J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math., State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Volume

26

Issue

14

fYear

2008

fDate

7/15/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2110

Lastpage

2117

Abstract

We study the statistics of transmission impairments due to polarization-mode dispersion in systems characterized by the hinge model. In particular, we validate the use of a computationally efficient expression for the probability density function (PDF) of the differential group delay (DGD) of systems with an arbitrary number of hinges. We then combine this expression for the PDF of the DGD with the outage map approach to compute outage probabilities and noncompliant capacity ratios for transmission links with varying numbers of sections (from 4 up to 20), each for several values of mean DGD and different system parameters.

Keywords

delay-differential systems; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; probability; differential group delay; noncompliant capacity ratio; optical fiber communication; outage probability; polarization hinges; polarization-mode dispersion; probability density function; transmission impairment; Capacity planning; Delay systems; Fasteners; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability density function; Statistics; Wavelength division multiplexing; Hinge model; noncompliant capacity ratio; optical fiber communications; outage probability; polarization mode dispersion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2008.920133

Filename

4609991