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Polarization-dependent chromatic dispersion and its impact on return-to-zero transmission formats

  • Northwestern University

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Abstract

We describe the extension of importance sampling and multicanonical Monte Carlo methods to events with large polarization-dependent chromatic dispersion (PCD), and we compare the efficiency of the two simulation techniques. We then use these methods to simulate pulse transmission in a return-to-zero system with full first-order polarization-mode dispersion compensation at center frequency. Results show that PCD does not contribute significantly to the statistics of the residual pulse broadening.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1866-1868
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume17
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2005

Keywords

  • Importance sampling (IS)
  • Monte Carlo simulation
  • Optical fiber communications
  • Polarization-mode dispersion (PMD)
  • Pulse broadening (PB)

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