The effect of the frequency dependence of PMD on the performance of optical communications systems |
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| Authors: | M Shtaif M Boroditsky |
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| Affiliation: | Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Phys. Electronincs, Tel Aviv Univ., Ramat Aviv, Israel; |
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| Abstract: | The authors study numerically the importance of the frequency dependence of the polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) vector to the operation of optical systems and evaluate the validity of the second-order PMD approximation. They show that there is no relevant range of parameters in which the second-order PMD approximation is useful and question the validity of considering discrete high-orders of PMD. |
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