An Analytic Formulation of PMD-Induced Pulse Distortion

Witold Bardyszewski; Michael Reimer; David Yevick

doi:10.1515/joc-2014-0089

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An Analytic Formulation of PMD-Induced Pulse Distortion

Witold Bardyszewski , Michael Reimer and David Yevick

Published/Copyright: June 17, 2015

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From the journal Journal of Optical Communications Volume 36 Issue 4

Abstract

We systematically analyze the pulse distortion resulting from polarization mode dispersion (PMD) by deriving an analytic expression for the characteristic function of the system bit error probability (BEP) density in terms of the lowest-order moments of the Fourier transformed input pulse shape. We determine the range of validity of our technique, which implements a second-order expansion of the Jones matrix, by comparing our results for chirped and unchirped input pulses with direct numerical simulations. Our method may be easily applied to analyze the role of the first- and second-order PMD in the interference between adjacent pulses.

Keywords: optical fiber systems; polarization mode dispersion; pulse distortion

OCIS.: (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (060.2400) Fiber properties; (000.5490) Probability theory; stochastic processes; and statistics

Funding statement: Funding: Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Nortel and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for financial support.

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Received: 2014-11-27

Accepted: 2015-4-20

Published Online: 2015-6-17

Published in Print: 2015-12-1

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Keywords for this article

optical fiber systems; polarization mode dispersion; pulse distortion