Periodic and quasi-periodic compensation strategies of extreme outages caused by polarization mode dispersion and amplifier noise

V. Chernyak, M. Chertkov, I. Kolokolov, V. Lebedev

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Abstract

The effect of birefringent disorder on the bit error rate (BER) in an optical fiber telecommunication system subject to amplifier noise may lead to extreme outages, related to anomalously large BER values. We analyze the probability distribution function of BER for various strategies of polarization mode dispersion compensation. A compensation method is proposed that is capable of more efficient extreme suppression of outages, which leads to substantial improvement of the fiber system performance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)198-201
Number of pages4
JournalJETP Letters
Volume78
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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