Statistics of PMD in recirculating loops

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1543-1545

  Petersson, Mats ^a   Vinegoni, Claudio ^a   Sunnerud, Henrik ^a,b   Karlsson, Magnus ^a,b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Accilon AB ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Differential group delay (DGD); Polarization mode dispersion (PMD); Probability density function (pdf); Recirculating loop

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL LINKS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIFFERENTIAL GROUP DELAY; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 0242334132     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.818681     Document Type: Article

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