Title :
Polarization-mode dispersion emulation with Maxwellian lengths and importance sampling
Author :
Biondini, Gino ; Kath, William L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng. Sci. & Appl. Math., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA
fDate :
3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We describe an efficient polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) emulation method that combines a concatenation of birefringent sections having Maxwellian-distributed lengths with importance sampling. The method generates PMD statistics with accurate tail distributions using relatively few sections and reasonable numbers of samples, and allows the targeting of specific, arbitrarily large, first- and second-order PMD values.
Keywords :
birefringence; importance sampling; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; statistical distributions; Maxwellian lengths; Maxwellian-distributed lengths; Monte Carlo simulation; PMD statistics; birefringent sections; efficient PMD emulation; first-order PMD values; importance sampling; optical fiber communications; polarization-mode dispersion emulation; second-order PMD values; tail distributions; Birefringence; Emulation; Hardware; Maxwell equations; Monte Carlo methods; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability; Testing;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2004.823739
