DocumentCode
452293
Title
Comparison of Power Penalties Due to First- and All-Order PMD Distortions
Author
Lima, Aurenice O. ; Lima, Ivan T., Jr. ; Adali, Tülay ; Menyuk, Curtis R.
Author_Institution
Computer Science and Electrcal Engineering Dept., University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA, e-mail: alima1@engr.umbc.edu
Volume
3
fYear
2002
fDate
8-12 Sept. 2002
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We compare the power penalty due to first-order and all-order PMD distortions. We show that first-order PMD overestimates the power penalty for outage probabilities in the range that is of interest for the systems designers.
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
Conference_Location
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN
87-90974-63-8
Type
conf
Filename
1601093
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