TY - JOUR
T1 - Modelling of polarization mode dispersion in optical communications systems
AU - Shtaif, Mark
AU - Mecozzi, Antonio
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - The modeling of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and the properties of this phenomena as a stochastic process were discussed. The use of stochastic calculus for the analysis of PMD and the derivation of the frequency autocorrelation functions of the PMD vector, its modulus and the principal states were also described. A formal treatment of PMD requires some mathematical concepts the first of which is the description of polarizations in Stokes space and their representation on the Poincaré sphere. Those quantities are then related to commonly used parameters such as the bandwidth of the first order PMD approximation, the bandwidth of the principal states and to the accuracy of PMD measurements.
AB - The modeling of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and the properties of this phenomena as a stochastic process were discussed. The use of stochastic calculus for the analysis of PMD and the derivation of the frequency autocorrelation functions of the PMD vector, its modulus and the principal states were also described. A formal treatment of PMD requires some mathematical concepts the first of which is the description of polarizations in Stokes space and their representation on the Poincaré sphere. Those quantities are then related to commonly used parameters such as the bandwidth of the first order PMD approximation, the bandwidth of the principal states and to the accuracy of PMD measurements.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10297-004-0002-4
DO - 10.1007/s10297-004-0002-4
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AN - SCOPUS:18244385203
SN - 1619-8638
VL - 1
SP - 248
EP - 265
JO - Journal of Optical and Fiber Communications Reports
JF - Journal of Optical and Fiber Communications Reports
IS - 3
ER -