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

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

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

Type

conf

Filename

4571586