Non-Maxwellian DGD distributions of PMD emulators

13 November 2002

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Vol. 4, ThA5-T1
https://doi.org/10.1109/ofc.2001.927475

Abstract

We use importance sampling to determine the differential group delay probability distribution produced by various polarization-mode-dispersion emulator models, showing that the tail probabilities can be orders of magnitude smaller than best-fit Maxwellian distributions. PMD emulators can therefore significantly underestimate the probability of rare DGD events.

Keywords

OPTICAL FIBER POLARIZATION
PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION
SCATTERING
MONTE CARLO METHODS
BIOMEDICAL OPTICAL IMAGING
OPTICAL DEVICES
DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION
PHOTONICS
COMPUTER SCIENCE
LABORATORIES

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: