First-Order PMD Outage Prediction Based on Outage Maps

Author

Gené, Joan M. ; Winzer, Peter J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Signal Theor. & Commun., Univ. Politec. de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Volume

28

Issue

13

fYear

2010

fDate

7/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1873

Lastpage

1881

Abstract

We compare the applicability of different methods for the calculation of first order polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) outage probabilities under the Maxwellian probability density assumption for the differential group delay. Results based on measured outage maps are contrasted with outage predictions using various simplifying approximations. We present a comprehensive data set of measured PMD outage maps at 10.7 Gb/s using non return-to-zero and return-to-zero on-off keying in combination with both standard threshold detection and maximum likelihood sequence estimation, with and without residual chromatic dispersion.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; maximum likelihood sequence estimation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; probability; Maxwellian probability density; bit rate 10.7 Gbit/s; differential group delay; first-order PMD outage prediction; maximum likelihood sequence estimation; non return-to-zero on-off keying; outage maps; polarization-mode dispersion outage probabilities; residual chromatic dispersion; return-to-zero on-off keying; threshold detection; Maximum likelihood detection; Maximum likelihood estimation; Optical distortion; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability; Signal to noise ratio; Chromatic dispersion; electronic equalization; maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE); outage probability; polarization-mode dispersion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2010.2049193

Filename

5458065