Importance sampling for polarization-mode dispersion

Author

Biondini, Gino ; Kath, William L. ; Menyuk, Curtis R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Sci. & Appl. Math., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA

Volume

14

Issue

3

fYear

2002

fDate

3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

310

Lastpage

312

Abstract

We describe the application of importance sampling to Monte-Carlo simulations of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) in optical fibers. The method allows rare differential group delay (DGD) events to be simulated much more efficiently than with standard Monte-Carlo methods and, thus, it can be used to assess PMD-induced system outage probabilities at realistic bit-error rates. We demonstrate the technique by accurately calculating the tails of the DGD probability distribution with a relatively small number of Monte-Carlo trials.

Keywords

delays; importance sampling; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; wavelength division multiplexing; DGD probability distribution; Monte-Carlo trials; PMD-induced system outage probabilities; differential group delay; importance sampling; optical fibers; optical fibre communication; polarization-mode dispersion; rare differential group delay events; realistic bit-error rates; Bit error rate; Delay; Discrete event simulation; Monte Carlo methods; Numerical simulation; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability distribution;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.986796

Filename

986796