Title :
PMD emulation with importance sampling and Maxwellian length sections
Author :
Biondini, G. ; Kath, W.
Author_Institution :
Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA
Abstract :
We describe the application of importance sampling to PMD emulators consisting of a concatenation of birefringent sections with Maxwellian-distributed lengths. Use of this scheme offers significant advantages over emulators with fixed-length sections.
Keywords :
birefringence; importance sampling; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; statistical distributions; Maxwellian length sections; birefringent sections; concatenation; emulators; fixed-length sections; importance sampling; polarization mode dispersion emulation; Biomedical optical imaging; Birefringence; Discrete event simulation; Emulation; Hardware; Monte Carlo methods; Optical fiber polarization; Optical receivers; Probability distribution; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1248310
