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PMD emulation

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Polarization Mode Dispersion

Part of the book series: Optical and Fiber Communications Reports ((OFCR,volume 1))

Abstract

As PMD has become an increasingly significant issue in high-bit-rate fiber optic systems, a need has developed for laboratory instruments and software tools capable of rapidly exploring the effects of PMD on various test items. The random nature of PMD dictates that to characterize its effects on transmitter/receiver pairs and on PMD compensation systems, one must repeatedly measure the system performance over a wide sample space of PMD states. This need has spurred the development of several methods for accurately and rapidly emulating the random variations of PMD in real fibers, as well as techniques for generating specific components and combinations of first- and higher-order PMD in a predictable and repeatable way. This chapter reviews several of these methods for both statistical and deterministic PMD emulation. The underlying concepts and rationales for various design architectures are discussed. A common analytical model for describing multisection all-order emulators is presented and a simple design example is used to further illustrate the concepts.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-2565, USA

    A.E. Willner

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0483, USA

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/B, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Andrea Galtarossa

  2. Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA

    Curtis R. Menyuk

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Willner, A., Hauer, M. (2004). PMD emulation. In: Galtarossa, A., Menyuk, C.R. (eds) Polarization Mode Dispersion. Optical and Fiber Communications Reports, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-26307-1_17

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