Abstract
Polarization-mode-dispersion (PMD) is considered a key limitation in ≥10-Gbit/s/channel transmission systems due to the high PMD fiber (1-100 ps/km0.5) that had been deployed throughout the 1980's and early 1990's. In general, PMD is caused by the different speeds of the two states-of-polarization (SOPs) as they propagate along a fiber having a slow and fast axis.
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