Statistics of PMD in recirculating loops

Author

Petersson, Mats ; Vinegoni, Claudio ; Sunnerud, Henrik ; Karlsson, Magnus

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microtechnology & Nanoscience, Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden

Volume

15

Issue

11

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1543

Lastpage

1545

Abstract

The statistical distribution of polarization-mode dispersion in a recirculating loop is investigated. Numerical simulations are performed in both Jones and Stokes space and are verified by experiments. The probability distribution of the differential group delay (DGD) is obtained numerically, theoretically, and experimentally. As the number of circulations increase, the probability density function of the DGD approaches a uniform distribution.

Keywords

matrix algebra; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; statistical analysis; Jones space; Stokes space; differential group delay; numerical simulations; polarization-mode dispersion; probability density function; probability distribution; recirculating loops; statistical distribution; uniform distribution; Birefringence; Delay effects; Laboratories; Optical fiber polarization; Photonics; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability density function; Probability distribution; Statistical distributions; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.818681

Filename

1237582