Experimental Determination of System Outage Probability Due to First-Order and Second-Order PMD

Author

Yaffe, Henry H. ; Peterson, Daniel L.

Author_Institution

LLC, New Ridge Technol., Reisterstown, MD

Volume

24

Issue

11

fYear

2006

Firstpage

4155

Lastpage

4161

Abstract

In this paper, a polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) tolerance testing procedure for transponders and transmission systems is described. This method exploits programmable PMD sources for testing the first- and second-order joint probability density function to estimate the total PMD network outage. Experimental data show that first-order-only PMD testing is insufficient to quantify the tolerance of a transponder and may falsely underestimate network outage

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; transponders; PMD; polarization-mode dispersion; probability density function; transponder; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; System testing; Systems engineering and theory; Transponders; Two dimensional displays; Optical fiber communications; optical fiber dispersion; optical fiber measurement applications; optical fiber standards and testing; outage probability; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD); systems engineering;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2006.883124

Filename

4012238