Summary form only given. Increasing the bit rate to 10 Gbit/s and beyond in a single channel for the terrestrial optical links is one of today's major challenges. At 10 Gbit/s, both first- and second-order polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) are important impairments, which have been already studied theoretically and experimentally. It has already been shown that the impact of second-order PMD is magnified by chromatic dispersion. However, the statistical point of view was not analyzed. In this paper, we will first show the statistics of second-order PMD, and we will explain why second-order PMD may not significantly reduce the maximum tolerable PMD if only first-order was considered.


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    Title :

    Impact of the statistics of second-order polarization-mode dispersion on system performance


    Contributors:
    Penninckx, D. (author) / Bruyere, F. (author)


    Publication date :

    1998-01-01


    Size :

    361084 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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