Abstract
As data rates increase, the effect of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) on system performance becomes ever more important.1,2 Since PMD is a stochastic effect yielding finite probabilities for the occurrence of high power penalties, it is impossible to specify a required receive power that fully eliminates the adverse effects of PMD. Instead, one allocates a power margin N[dB] for PMD in the system power budget, and specifies the outage probability Pout as the probability that the power penalty due to PMD exceeds this margin.3 As the values for Pout specified by system operators can be as low as 10−8 for N[dB] = 1, laboratory tests aiming at the measurement of Pout are hardly feasible.4 Instead, one resorts simulation by computing.
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