Estimating outages due to polarization mode dispersion using extreme value statistics

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3907-3913

  Savory, Seb ^a   Payne, Frank ^b   Hadjifotiou, Anagnostis ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extreme value distributions; Optical fiber communication; Outage probability; Polarization mode dispersion (PMD)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; OPTICAL FIBERS; OUTAGES; POLARIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 37849186339     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.883605     Document Type: Article

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