Outage Statistics in a Waveplate Hinge Model of Polarization-Mode Dispersion

Author

Li, Jinglai ; Biondini, Gino ; Kath, William L. ; Kogelnik, Herwig

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Sci. & Appl. Math., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA

Volume

28

Issue

13

fYear

2010

fDate

7/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1958

Lastpage

1968

Abstract

The properties of the waveplate hinge model of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) are studied in detail, and its statistics are compared to those of the traditional hinge model based on the assumption of an isotropic output after each hinge. In particular, the probability density function of the differential group delay for each individual frequency band is computed using a combination of importance sampling and the cross-entropy method. The outage probability is then obtained combining these results with the outage map method, allowing the fraction of bands with unacceptable outage probabilities to be quantified by the noncompliant capacity ratio (NCR). The results show that the traditional hinge model significantly overestimates the NCR compared to the waveplate hinge model.

Keywords

entropy; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; probability; cross-entropy method; differential group delay; importance sampling; noncompliant capacity ratio; outage map method; outage statistics; polarization-mode dispersion; probability density function; waveplate hinge model; Cross-entropy (CE) method; hinge model; importance sampling (IS); noncompliant capacity ratio (NCR); optical fiber communications; outage probability; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2010.2048890

Filename

5452963