Polarization-dependent chromatic dispersion and its impact on return-to-zero transmission formats

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1866-1868

  Biondini, Gino ^a   Kath, William L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Importance sampling (IS); Monte Carlo simulation; Optical fiber communications; Polarization mode dispersion (PMD); Pulse broadening (PB)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING (IS); OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION (PMD); PULSE BROADENING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 27144546657     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.853016     Document Type: Article

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