Statistics of polarization dependent loss in an installed long-haul WDM system

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6790-6796

  Nelson, Lynn E ^a   Antonelli, Cristian ^b   Mecozzi, Antonio ^b   Birk, Martin ^a   Magill, Peter ^a   Schex, Anton ^c   Rapp, Lutz ^c  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION;

ADJACENT CHANNELS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; LONG HAUL; LOWER BOUNDS; NEW MODEL; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRESTRIAL LINKS; TIME-SCALES; WDM SYSTEMS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 79953184647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006790     Document Type: Article

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