Computation of the outage probability due to the polarization effects using importance sampling

Author

Lima, I.T., Jr. ; Lima, A.O. ; Sun, Y. ; Zweck, J. ; Marks, B.S. ; Carter, G.M. ; Menyuk, C.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

57

Abstract

A fundamental problem in the design of optical communication systems is to minimize channel outages due to the polarization effects. System designers commonly allocate a prescribed margin to polarization effects, such as 2 dB, with a certain probability that the margin will be exceeded, such as 10^-6. When this margin is exceeded an outage is said to occur. Because outages are so rare, it has been difficult to obtain them from experiments or from standard Monte Carlo simulations.

Keywords

importance sampling; minimisation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; probability; channel outages minimisation; fundamental problem; long-haul optical fiber transmission systems; optical communication systems; outage; polarization effects; prescribed margin; probability; standard Monte Carlo simulations; Monte Carlo methods; Optical amplifiers; Optical distortion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Page description languages; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036200

Filename

1036200