System outage probability due to the combined effect of PMD and PDL

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1805-1808

  Lu, Ping ^a,b   Chen, Liang ^a   Bao, Xiaoyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Outage probability; Polarization dependent loss (PDL); Polarization mode dispersion (PMD)

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL FIBERS; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY;

POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION (PMD);

OUTAGES;

EID: 0036823060     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2002.804258     Document Type: Article

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