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Analytical evaluation of optical system impairments caused by high‐order polarization‐mode dispersion effects
Author(s) -
Orlandini Alessandra,
Vincetti Luca
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.10060
Subject(s) - polarization mode dispersion , polarization (electrochemistry) , dispersion (optics) , differential group delay , microwave , physics , stokes parameters , optics , mathematics , mathematical analysis , computational physics , chemistry , quantum mechanics , scattering
The differential equation that relates the Jones matrix of a polarization‐mode dispersion fiber to its output dispersion vector is solved for a dispersion vector that moves on a circumference in the Stokes space. It yields a new simple model that can be usefully exploited to calculate the pulse‐broadening analytical expression and to evaluate the system performance in terms of outage probability. A comparison among the results obtained with it, with other models proposed in literature, and with the numerical DRW model show its best accuracy. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 31: 449–453, 2001.