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 language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 789-791 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | IEEE Photonics Technology Letters |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 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