Statistics of polarization-dependent loss, insertion loss, and signal power in optical communication systems

Author

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

Author_Institution

Innovancc Networks Inc., Piscataway, NJ, USA

Volume

14

Issue

12

fYear

2002

Firstpage

1695

Lastpage

1697

Abstract

We present analytical solutions to describe the statistics of signal power and insertion loss due to polarization-dependent loss (PDL) concatenation in communication systems. Using the methods of stochastic differential equations, we show that a system with a large number of low-PDL elements yields a Gaussian distribution for the signal power when it is expressed in units of decibels.

Keywords

Fokker-Planck equation; difference equations; optical fibre communication; optical fibre losses; singular value decomposition; stochastic processes; Fokker-Planck equations; Gaussian distribution; Jones matrix; decibel units; insertion loss statistics; optical communication systems; polarization-dependent loss concatenation; signal power statistics; stochastic differential equations; Insertion loss; Optical fiber communication; Optical losses; Optical polarization; Page description languages; Signal analysis; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Stochastic systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.803373

Filename

1058255