• 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