Polarization-Mode Dispersion Emulation With Maxwellian Lengths and Importance Sampling

Gino Biondini*, William L. Kath

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Abstract

We describe an efficient polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) emulation method that combines a concatenation of birefringent sections having Maxwellian-distributed lengths with importance sampling. The method generates PMD statistics with accurate tail distributions using relatively few sections and reasonable numbers of samples, and allows the targeting of specific, arbitrarily large, first- and second-order PMD values.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)789-791
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume16
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2004

Funding

Manuscript received May 15, 2003; revised September 11, 2003. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-0101476. The authors are with the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3125 USA (e-mail: [email protected]). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/LPT.2004.823739

Keywords

  • Importance sampling (IS)
  • Monte Carlo (MC) simulation
  • Optical fiber communications
  • Polarization-mode dispersion (PMD)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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