Outage Due to Polarization Effects in a Trans-Oceanic System

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2000-03-07

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Wang, D., and C. R. Menyuk. "Outage Due to Polarization Effects in a Trans-Oceanic System" In Optical Fiber Communication Conference (2000), Paper WL7, WL7. Optica Publishing Group, 2000. https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=OFC-2000-WL7.

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Polarization mode dispersion
Wavelength division multiplexing
UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF)
Bit error rate
Polarization
Fiber nonlinearity
Q factor
UMBC Computational Photonics Lab

Abstract

Polarization effects due to the complicated interaction of polarization mode dispersion (PMD), polarization dependent loss (PDL), and polarization dependent gain can significantly impair the performance of a trans-oceanic WDM system, leading to fading in which an entire channel is lost.