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
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.
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN :
87-90974-63-8
