Abstract
We quantify the PMD-induced system outage probability by means of numerical simulations for NRZ and RZ with proper comparative conditions and find that RZ performs better than NRZ. We also study the trade-off between power margin and acceptable PMD.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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