Title :
A waveplate hinge model for PMD in installed fibers
Author :
Li, Jinglai ; Biondini, Gino ; Kath, William L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Math., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL
Abstract :
We propose a waveplate hinge model to characterize anisotropic effects in the hinge model of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD). We compute the outage probability of an individual frequency band using a combination of importance sampling and the cross-entropy method, and the non-compliant capacity ratio by averaging over wavelength bands. We show that there are significant differences between the outage statistics predicted by isotropic and anisotropic hinge models.
Keywords :
entropy; importance sampling; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; optical retarders; probability; PMD; anisotropic effects; cross-entropy method; importance sampling; installed fibers; isotropic hinge models; non-compliant capacity ratio; outage statistics; polarization-mode dispersion; waveplate hinge model; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Capacity planning; Fasteners; Frequency; Monte Carlo methods; Optical fiber polarization; Optical retarders; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability; Statistics; (060.2330) fiber optics communications; (060.4510) Optical communications;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-859-9
