Abstract
We study the statistics of transmission impairments due
to polarization-mode dispersion in systems characterized by the hinge model.
In particular, we validate the use of a computationally efficient expression
for the probability density function (PDF) of the differential group delay
(DGD) of systems with an arbitrary number of hinges. We then combine this
expression for the PDF of the DGD with the outage map approach to compute
outage probabilities and noncompliant capacity ratios for transmission links
with varying numbers of sections (from 4 up to 20), each for several values
of mean DGD and different system parameters.
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