Scalable polarization-mode dispersion emulator with proper first- and second-order statistics

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2451-2453

  Lizé, Yannick Keith ^a   Palmer, Leigh ^b   Godbout, Nicolas ^a   Lacroix, Suzanne ^a   Kashyap, Raman ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Differential group delay (DGD); Emulator optical communications; Polarization controller (PC); Polarization mode dispersion (PMD)

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

DIFFERENTIAL GROUP DELAY (DGD); EMULATOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; POLARIZATION CONTROLLER (PC); POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION (PMD);

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 27744602846     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.857600     Document Type: Article

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